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A finishes list to a room uses the Items overview – as with all other Items lists. To be able to add a finishes item to a room the item needs to be created in the items overview first. Beneath you can see a screen capture of how finishes can be organized in the items overview;
An item group defines a grouping of finish types (Wall, Flooring, Ceiling, Base)
An item within each item group defines a specific finish (PT-1, ACT-1)
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Note that the image above shown shows an example of how finishes can be organized. Projects can however organize finishes groups differently. New finishes items can be created by clicking "New Item" in the upper left corner of the top menu.
To create a finishes Item list you need superuser access to the database. The following two chapters are meant for the persons that will create the framework for registration finishes in dRofus.
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After you have created an Item list for finishes you can divide this list into separate categories. The categories will help the project to see which finish belongs to different locations in the room. Go to Settings ->Project and Database Administration->Settings ->Items ->Catergories for Item Lists/Finishes. Typical catergories can be "Walls", "Ceiling", "Floor", "Base" etc. Put in other words, the enteties you want to attach finishes to. Select "Add" and this window appear;
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Specify which finishes list you want to create categories in. This is a dropdown menu showing all finishes lists created in the databases.
Insert name on category e.g. "Walls", "Floor", "Ceiling" etc.
Here you can specify a datatype for the category. Normally enteties like walls, ceiling, floors etc. will be labeled with sf og m2. This is not a mandatory field as the use cases for data types on categories are so far limited in dRofus.
Dropdown displaying all items groups in the items overview. If you have created items groups for your finishes you can connect the categories to the items groups. This will create a pre-defined filter when you apply finishes to a category later in the process. You can see the result of these filters in The Finishes List.
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