Here is another Revit Gotcha for young and old:
Family Editor Shared Parameters
If you add a new Shared Parameter in the family editor, you might expect that parameter to be available in a project in all situations. You would be wrong!
Shared Parameters created in the family editor, and then loaded into a project have two entirely different (inconsistent) behaviours:
- In Schedules, the shared parameters will automatically be available to add as fields
- In View Filters, the family shared parameters will not be available to add as fields
This is quite confusing and inconsistent. It can also catch you out, however experienced with Revit you might be – as I recently discovered when demonstrating how to create View Filters to a client
Schedules
If you create a new schedule for the category of the recently loaded family, the Shared Parameter is automatically available in the list of available fields – as you might expect: it is one of their mystical powers.
View Filters
Try the same…