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8 Click OK when finished.
Specifying Schedule Properties
After you have specified the desired type of schedule, you need to specify the information to include on the
schedule and how the information should appear.
You set schedule properties in the Schedule Properties dialog. To access this dialog, right-click the schedule
name in the Project Browser, and select Properties. Click Edit for any of the parameters in the Other category.
Selecting Fields for a Schedule
On the Fields tab of the Schedule Properties dialog, you can select the fields that appear in the schedule.
The following table lists the tasks you can complete from this tab.
If you want to...
add a field to the Scheduled Fields list
remove a name from the Scheduled Fields list
move a field up or down in the list
add a custom field
modify a custom field
create a field whose value is calculated from a formula
create a field that is a percentage of another field
add room parameters to a non-room schedule
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then...
click a field name in the Available Fields box, and click Add.
The order of the fields in the Scheduled Fields box shows the
order in which they appear in the schedule.
select it from the Scheduled Fields list, and click Remove.
select the field, and click Move Up or Move Down.
click Add Parameter, and select whether to add a project
parameter or shared parameter. For more information, see
Custom Parameters
on page 450.
select the field, and click Edit. In the Parameter Properties
dialog, enter a new name for the field. Click Delete to delete
a custom field.
click Calculated Value. Enter a name for the field, set its type,
and enter the formula for it using existing fields in the
schedule.
For example, if you want to calculate an occupancy load
based on the area of a room, you could add a custom field
called Occupancy Load that is calculated from the Area field.
Formulas support the same mathematical functions as in the
Family Editor. For more information on creating formulas,
see
Using Formulas for Numerical Parameters
click Calculated Value. Enter a name for the field, set its type
to percentage, and enter the name of the field to take a
percentage of.
By default, percentages are calculated based on the total for
the entire schedule. If you set grouping fields in the Sort-
ing/Grouping tab, you can choose one of those fields here.
For example, if you group a room schedule by level, you can
display what percentage of the total area of the level the
room occupies.
for Select Available Fields From, click Room. This changes the
list of fields in the Available Fields box to a list of room para-
on page 387.
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