HowTo: Obtaining Identity Data from Project Information and Sheets (For a PDF Renaming workflow)

[awilliams]

Hi Jack,

@luckysurfcs

the “project number” which i may need to get from “project information” category?

Yes this is correct, here is a recent post on the forum that demonstrates what you are aiming to do with Project Information for sheets: Help:Naming Sheet From 2 Parameter Category - #17 by Mahmoud_Mokhtar

@luckysurfcs

the drawing type, i’ve set it as “DR” by default though it could be “SK” etc. Currently when i try to obtain “Type” it returns “sheet”. When i add a “watch” field it seems there are multiple “type” fields so maybe the easiest way forward for me is to change the name of the drawing “Type” parameter to “Drawing Type” so that it is easily identifiable.

I’m not 100% certain what you mean by this part but I believe you are saying you have a project parameter called “Type” and it is conflicting with the Revit “Type” parameter, so yes I would recommend changing it to “Drawing Type” to get the parameter values you are after.

@luckysurfcs

Suitability status. This i think may be the hardest information to retrieve as it’s based on a set of tick-box visibility parameters. See screenshot in following post.

Here is one possible way, but you would want to move your Suitability Status parameters into a Parameter Group by themselves for the “Filter Parameters by Parameter Group” part to work, but there are other potential ways you can filter for them (i.e. give the parameter names a prefix)

Hope this helps!