To access the Zone to Room Configuration panel, select the following within the dRofus Menu:
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Top Section:
- Chose Configuration: Drop Provides a 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 configurations as default by checking this item. This will set the configuration as the default configuration used in all related dialogs dialog panels (i.e., for synchronizing Rooms, linking Rooms, place-linking Rooms 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 Room configurations, it is recommended that the dRofus Room ID or the Room Function 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 Rooms if changes happen in either ArchiCAD or dRofus.
When linking Zones to Rooms, 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 a Zone <-> Room Configuration where the Room ID is used as the key, and the values against the Room ID attribute in dRofus gets injected in to a parameter called UserData under InternalData in ArchiCAD, after which the link between the dRofus Rooms and ArchiCAD Zones will then be maintained:
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