Create and use a key schedule

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in this video,

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you'll learn how to create a key schedule that can then

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be used to automate the addition of consistent schedule information.

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Key schedules are great for schedules that

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contain multiple items with the same characteristics.

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For this example we'll create a key schedule for the room schedule

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all open the room schedule

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and we can see all of the rooms in the project

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as you can see

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the floor, base ceiling and wall finished parameters are blank

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and there are multiple types of rooms that are similar.

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That would have the same information for these parameters.

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When that's the case, you can create a key schedule

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on the view tab

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in the create panel,

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expand the schedules button and click schedule quantities.

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For this example,

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I'll select the rooms category

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and then

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instead of selecting schedule, building components,

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I'll select schedule keys,

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rev It updates the name of the schedule and also makes the key name available.

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You can enter in whatever information you want.

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I'll leave it at the default values

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and then click OK.

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Next rev it opens the Schedule properties dialog.

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And this is similar to creating a schedule of building components.

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We can add available fields to the list of scheduled fields.

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For this example

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we want it to match

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the parameters we need to fill in in the room schedule

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so we can add the floor finish and then the base finish

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the ceiling finish

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and then the wall finish.

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And if needed, you can always adjust the order

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of those parameters.

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Next I'll click OK to create the key schedule

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As you can see it's blank and so we need to

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add rows and we can use the insert data road tool

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and I'll click it twice to add two rows and then

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we need to specify the key name for each one.

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For the first one

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I'll enter office

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and then press enter

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and for the next one I'll enter exam room

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and then press enter.

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Now we can specify the floor finish, base finish, ceiling finish and wall finish

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for each of our keys

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for the exam room,

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I'll enter V C. T. For the floor finish

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and then press enter

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and for the office. I'll enter would

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and press enter

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For the base finish. I'll enter VB for each one

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and for the ceiling finish I'll enter a C T for each one

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And for the wall finish I'll enter PNT-1 and PNT-2.

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Once again we could add additional rows for the various

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types of rooms that we have and the amount of

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rows that you add will just vary depending on the

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size of the project and whatever you are working with.

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Once you're ready to use those keys

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switch back to the schedule. So in this case the room schedule

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and then click edit next to fields

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to open the schedule. Properties dialog

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Now, in the list of available fields we can see the key name, which is room style.

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So I'll I will add that to the list of scheduled fields and then I'll move it up

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to right below the

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right above the floor finish and right below the area.

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And then I'll click OK.

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And now we can see a room style column in our schedule.

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I'll scroll down to an exam room

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and I'll select

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exam room for the key.

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And when I do you can see the other parameters populate.

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So as you can see, we can quickly specify those parameters for our exam rooms.

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I'll scroll down to the offices

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and I'll do the same thing, but I'll select office this time

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and once again we can quickly specify those parameters.

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So as you can see,

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you can create a key schedule and then add rows for

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the various keys and then select them here in your schedule.

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You could continue this by adding

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the types of rooms for say, restroom, janitor, maybe entryways or lobbies,

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and then continue to select the room styles here in

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the schedule to populate the rest of the room schedule.