Project Information in Revit Schedules

Those of you who read my previous blog post on Using Totals in Schedule Formulas, may have noted from the comments at the end that there was a subtle, undocumented change to schedules in Revit 2017.  I picked this up in discussions with Andy Milburn – so I thought we should share it clearly:

Revit 2016 Schedules

When defining a schedule in Revit 2016, the choice of category is in a drop-down menu in the lower left of the dialog box.  Just below it is a checkbox for including elements in linked Revit files – this is unticked by default.

If you click on the category drop-down menu for ‘Select available fields from’ you may get other options depending on the defined category for the schedule.  Typically, you will not see ‘Project Information’ in the list (For Casework, Rooms and Spaces are available).

However, once you tick the ‘Include elements in links’ checkbox, ‘Project Information’ suddenly becomes available;  not surprisingly RVT Links also shows up

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