SoftList -Privacy Doors and Hardware

"How to have SoftList calculate for privacy, passage, locksets, etc..."


OK everybody, here is what we need to do.
It requires some minor work on our end, but it gives us great flexibility in reporting.

First: Softplan has no way of knowing which door requires which type of hardware due to all doors come from same library. That is all interior doors from interior library, all exterior door from exterior library. It has no way of knowing by room.

Create door librarie(s) for privacy locks, deadbolts, etc.
Go to File > system library, select opening library.
Choose interior for interior doors, ie passage, privacy type hardware.
Add new library use one step to add existing openings (use existing opening button).
Give library new name depicting hardware type, privacy, etc...
Give sequence number for each door, add all door sizes you need to new library. Select OK.
You can also add sequence numbers using Material List Setup.

If you have a drawing open, change doors to new library type, that is privacy doors from new privacy library. You get the idea.
Now you need to create some custom formulas to count the passage versus privacy hardware.
Go to Build > Material List Setup

User Defined Variables
Create(insert button) new variable called privacy_hw
Set Value=0
No Prompt
accumulates privacy hardware based on opening library
edit material
privacy hardware interior door > privacy lock

Custom Formula:
privacy_hw=privacy_hw + num_sections
num_sections is the number of door sections to get count for nummber of privacy locks.

Here is the code
before:
@passage_hw=0
process:
if not wall_exterior
if matches
@passage_hw = @passage_hw + num_sections
endif
endif
after:
list(@passage_hw - privacy_hw)

Sorry for being so long here but trying to describe so it makes sense.
Recap,
Create new opening libraires as need for passage set types, privacy, locksets, deadbolts.

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