Properties & Parameters Tab Page

The second tab opens the Properties & Parameters page. Use the controls in this page to determine the amount of information included for each element in the report.

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Select Keys

Keys are logical categories in Databases, which group the primary Database items - Components and Descriptors - by type.

Select the desired Keys for filtering the components and descriptors to be listed. You can only select Keys from the Database in which the selected List Scheme resides. In the case of a database-independent scheme, you can select Keys from any of the existing databases.

Select Components and Descriptors

Use the Components and Descriptors pop-up lists to determine the combination of components and descriptors to be listed.

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Choose All to include all related Components (or Descriptors) in the calculation.

Choose None to ignore Components (or Descriptors).

Select one of four global options:

From Databases Only will include all properties (Components or Descriptors) residing in databases.

Object Specific Items Only will include only locally defined properties (those in regular library parts or Property Objects).

Custom Set From Databases Only opens the Select Descriptors and the Select Components dialog boxes, where you can define the set of properties to filter the report.

Custom Set & Object Specific Items is a combination of the second and third options.

If you want to use a filter set that does not match any of the predefined options, use the Customize button.

Example:

Let us say you have a Wall with a Property Object assigned to it, in which the following Components are created:

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The first two are taken from the Database by clicking the 'Link to Database Item…' button in the top row and selecting an item from the Database for each.

The other three Components are Local Components of the Property Object, meaning they will not become part of the Database so they are accessible for only those Elements and Objects to which this specific Property Object is assigned.

Depending on how you filter components in Setup List Schemes, the resulting element list will vary:

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All: All five components are listed.

None: Nothing is listed.

From Database Only: Only the first two components, linked to the database, are listed.

Object Specific Items Only: Only the last three components, which are local to this property object, are listed.

Select Parameters

In the Global Element Parameters list, choose any of the common parameters of all element types, such as surface, volume, height, thickness or user ID.

Shift-click to multi-select.

The Extra Parameters lists those which are specific to the selected element type(s).

Under Library Parts’ Additional Parameters, the Select Additional Parameters dialog box allows you to select parameters by type and one-by-one.

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