To access the Object to Item Configuration panel, select the following highlighted within the dRofus Menu:
The Object <-> Item Configuration Editor dialog panel will then open as follows:
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The main difference between the Zone <-> Room Configuration Editor and the Object <-> Item Configuration Editor dialogs is that (unlike Zones), Objects do not have a common set of parameters. This is why the list of available ArchiCAD parameters within the Object <-> Item Configuration Editor dialog contains parameters only pertaining to the currently selected Object (or the default Library Part if there are no Objects selected, or only the common parameters if multiple-selected Objects have different sets of parameters).
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| It matters what Object is Of importance is the Object currently selected (or set as default) when you open the Object <-> Item Configuration Editor dialog. Only parameters from the Library Part of the currently selected Object will be available within the dialog. In additionAdditionally, IFC properties will not appear within the Object <-> Item Configuration Editor dialog, unless you select at least one Object prior to opening the dialog. This also applies prior to carrying out the Sync Objects with dRofus command. |
This means that you may want to create different configurations for parameters based on different groups of Objects. An example of such a configuration is shown below:
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- Chose Configuration: Drop down list of pre-defined configurations.
- New: Create a new configuration.
- Copy: Makes a copy of the active configuration.
- Delete: Deletes the active configuration.
- Available to users: If this is checked all Users can see / use this configuration. If not checked then only those who have BIM Administration access can use the configuration.
- Is Default Configuration: The User with BIM Administration access can mark one of the set a configurations as default by checking this box. This will set the configuration as the default configuration used in all related dialogs (i.e., for synchronizing Items, linking Items etc.) for all Users.
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Select a Key Attribute to be used for matching: Select a dRofus Attribute and an ArchiCAD Parameter, then click on "Link ==".
Every configuration is required to have only one mapping as the Key attribute used for comparing. For Item configurations, it is recommended that the dRofus Item ID or the Item Number attribute is used as the Key attribute used for comparing as they are guaranteed to be unique (at least within dRofus) so it will be easy to spot deviations in Items if changes happen in either ArchiCAD or dRofus.
When linking Objects to Items, the key value is read from dRofus and then written in to ArchiCAD (unless the ArchiCAD parameter is read-only or the dRofus parameter is empty - in which case the key value is read from ArchiCAD and then written in to dRofus). The following is an example of an Object <-> Item Configuration where the Item ID is used as the key, and the values against the Item ID attribute in dRofus gets injected in to a parameter called Object ID under Object in ArchiCAD, after which the link between the dRofus Items and ArchiCAD Objects will then be maintained:
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