Use and manage the project browser

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In this video,

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you'll learn how to create and edit browser

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organization schemes to help organize the project browser.

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You'll also see how to search the project browser.

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The project browser is essential to every rit

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project.

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This is where you can access the various views, legends schedules and quantities

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and sheets in your project.

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So it's important that it's properly organized so

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that you can quickly access what you need to

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first off, be aware that the branches can be expanded and collapsed

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and pay attention to

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the

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text and parentheses next to views schedules, quantities and sheets.

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This indicates the browser organization scheme

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that is being used for that specific branch.

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For example, next to views,

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you can see by level and that is the scheme that is being used

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to organize the views branch.

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And when you select it,

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you can see it in the type selector.

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And you can also expand the type selector and choose

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another organization scheme.

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For example, when I select all

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and then expand the views branch,

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we can see that there's a slight update.

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And if I change it to another one such as not on sheets,

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then we can see it update again.

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And if I select phase,

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we can see that there's another update.

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So once again, you can simply select the branch

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and then control the scheme in the type selector.

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You can also create your own browser organization schemes.

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When you switch to the view tab

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and then in the windows panel, expand the user interface button,

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you can click browser organization

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to open the browser organization dialog.

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As you can see there's a views tab as well as a sheets tab and a schedules tab.

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Those are the three branches that can

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use a browser organization scheme.

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You can select the check box next to one of the schemes and click apply.

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And that will also update the scheme that is being used

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when you select one and click edit

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it opens the browser organization properties dialogue

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and you can take a closer look at how that scheme is being defined.

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There's a filtering tab

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as well as a grouping and sorting tab.

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I'll click cancel to close the dialogue

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and then with the views tab active, I'll click new.

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I'm going to name this one

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discipline

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and level

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and then I'll click. OK.

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When I do this opens the browser organization properties dialogue

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on the filtering tab, you can choose to filter

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the views by a specific parameter.

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And so this would actually filter some to where some do not even appear.

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I'm going to leave it set to none

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and then I'll switch to the grouping and sorting tab,

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I'm going to choose to group by the discipline

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and then by the level,

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which in this case is the associated level.

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And then for the third, then by,

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I'll choose family and type.

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And as you can see, there are additional, then buy options.

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And under each one,

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you can choose to use either all characters or leading characters.

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And when you select leading characters, you can choose how many characters

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you wish to display.

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I'm gonna leave it set to all characters.

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And lastly

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at the bottom, you can choose how to sort,

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you can sort by family, family and type phase, detail level view, template,

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associated level view, scale or view name.

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I'm going to leave it set to view name

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and also ascending. But if you wanted, you could switch it to descending

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next, I'll click. OK?

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And now we have a new browser organization scheme.

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I'm going to select it

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and then click. OK.

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And now you can see under views, there are

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two branches,

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architectural and co ordination,

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which are the two

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view disciplines that are being used.

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And then when I expand each one, you can see the levels.

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So this is a custom browser organization scheme that we could use

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when you see question marks,

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that means that those views do not meet the browser criteria.

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So for example, our 3d views, elevations and sections,

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they do not have an associated level.

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Therefore,

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they only appear under the discipline but then they don't have an associated level.

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So there's a question mark

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also be aware that you can create a project parameter

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to use for a browser organization scheme.

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For example, I'll switch to the manage tab

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and in the settings panel, I'll click project parameters

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and then I'll click new parameter

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and I will name it browser organization.

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And I'm going to leave the discipline set to common

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the type of parameter. I'm going to change it to text

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and I'll choose to group it under other.

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And then I'm going to leave it set to instant.

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And for the categories,

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I will select views

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and I'll go ahead and select sheets as well.

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You could apply it to your sheets

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and then I'll click. OK?

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And I'm going to simply click OK to close each of these dialogues.

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And then I'll deselect everything so that the view properties appear.

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And now when I scroll down

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to other, I can see browser organization

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and we could enter

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numerical values or really anything that we

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wanted to for the browser organization.

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For example, I'll select all of the 3d views in the project browser.

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And then for the browser organization, I'll change it to

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and then next, I'll right click the views branch and choose browser organization.

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And then I'm simply going to edit the existing one

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and I'm going to add another Z

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by

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or actually I'll change the third then buy

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to browser organization

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and then I'll change the fourth one to family and type

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and then I'll click. OK.

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Now you can see there's another branch that has been added

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and we have our browser organization parameter that's being used.

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So as you can see,

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there are lots of ways that you can customize your browser organization schemes so

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that the views or schedules or sheets appear just like you want them to.

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I am going to change it back to by

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level,

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which is what we already had

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on the top of the project browser,

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you can click on the tabs

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to toggle between views,

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legends, schedules,

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sheets,

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families,

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groups

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and links.

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Let's also explore the search bar.

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I will enter ground floor

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and as I do,

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you can see various branches expand in the project browser

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and the project browser will find

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the phrase or the string

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that I am searching for.

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So if you are looking for a specific view

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or you're trying to find a view you named incorrectly,

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you can search in the project browser to help you find it.