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sllana

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Hi, i'm trying to do a wall pass-throgh seal that I need in various sizes that I want to control as instance parameters and they work fine, but when I set those dimension parameters as "Reporting Parameter", they are no longer editable from the instance properties window. So....does anyone know how to do it? . . . . If possible

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Reporting parameters report!  From your HELP: "A reporting parameter is a parameter type that has its value driven by a particular dimension in the family model. Reporting parameters extract a value from a geometric condition and use it to report the data to a formula or as a schedulable parameter."  So as such, you can't set them.

• Reporting parameters are useful when a family is driven by external references that are updated based on contextual information from placed family instances, such as curtain panels or the width of a wall for the frame of a door or a window.
• For external reference cases in which the geometry depends on the specific conditions of individual family instance placement, the reporting parameter allows the dimension value to be saved and reported in the family parameter.
• A reporting parameter can be used in a formula only if its dimension references are to host elements in the family (such as levels, curtain panel boundary reference planes). If any of the dimension's references is to family geometry, the dimension can be labeled with a reporting parameter, but this parameter cannot be used in formulas.

So why do you want this to be a reporting parameter when it already works as an instance parameter?

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I believe you were wanting a shared parameter which could be instance.  Again, from your HELP:

Shared parameters are particularly useful when you want to create a schedule that displays various family categories; without a shared parameter, you cannot do this. If you create a shared parameter and add it to the desired family categories, you can then create a schedule with these categories. This is called creating a multi-category schedule in Revit Architecture.

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sllana

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Because I want to put several instances of the object in cuestion, set the dimension of of each one without making several Types (but instance variation) and make a schedule that gives me a list of all of them with their respective sizes. Or what would be the way to do this.?

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You must have missed my last post and did not understand my first post.  NOT reporting - you need shared.

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sllana

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Thank you WWHub, now I got it. And I could do it. I was trying to understand that for months. Thank you again for your concern.

Edited on: Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:14:04 PM

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