Bart S

Thanks, I eventually got to the bottom of this working on this principle. The NBS Chorus plugin is a web palette, but doesn't have a specific menu item that is visible within the workspace editor (unlike tools like the AI Visualiser which does) However, I realised that the "Web Palettes" menu item was not included in my workspace's menus - despite the fact that "Web Palettes" parent menu was... By adding the "Web Palettes" menu item to the "Web Palettes" menu folder, the NBS Chorus item finally showed up! Bit of a painful process for something fairly simple in the end.

We're still struggling to get this to work here - anyone got any ideas on what the issue could be? As the NBS Chorus tool is now part of our established workflow, it means as a company we are so far unable to transition to VW 2025. I have tried a uninstalling and reinstalling the tool via the partner products window, which says it is an installed product. Similarly, have removed/added to workspace - and tried different workspaces - but there is nothing showing up in the web palettes menu still. This is what we see in VW 2025: And the same window with the tool showing up as expected in 2024:

Ok thanks - I think that might be a bit beyond my pay grade for now! I've not explored scripting yet and not sure it's something I'd be too confident attempting right now. Might be something I revisit when I have a spare afternoon..

@Hugues That makes sense, thanks. Is there any way of creating a criterion for database headers that uses these similar rules to filter all objects "belonging" to a certain Space that you are aware of?

I was wondering if anyone knew if there is difference between how VW treats the "location" of an object versus how it returns the surrounding (or adjacent?) space via worksheet functions? Does the GetSpaceNameForObj (or number) function work differently to location criteria? Are heights, drawing stacking order etc. at play here? My specific issue here is with scheduling. I have created door/window schedules that (correctly) show the space that the object is within/directly bordering. In the extract below, "Room" is given by =GetSpaceNameForObj I then have separate room data sheets, which use a whole bunch of criteria to return various parameters/objects within spaces - in effect the inverse schedule. Ideally, I would expect the relevant windows to show up in every space they are linked to in the above schedule, which is only the case some of the time. In the below, the windows are (correctly) returned with a database header that includes the criteria LOC=RM-SH-00-10. However, in other instances, the windows are not returned in the same way. For some windows, I have to manually extend the space to fully enclose the windows: These windows do not show up as having their location in the yellow space, even though GetSpaceNameForObj returns the name of this space for these windows. These do. However, these windows are returned by LOC=[yellow space name]. Similarly, for doors, it seems LOC=[space name] only returns the door when the swing is fully within the space. This would make sense to me if the GetSpaceNameForObj didn't work in reverse, but as that does I'm guessing the functions work in different ways? I'm guess I'm struggling to pin down exactly out what is considered a "surrounding" space.

I'm struggling to find/access the NBS Chorus plugin in VW 2025, despite it being installed. Although I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling via the Install Partner Products dialogue, the associated web palette isn't appearing in the menus. I had thought it might be something to do with web palettes and workspace migration, as other web palettes such as the AI visualiser are also not making it across into my workspace. However, the NBS web palette doesn't appear in the generic workspaces once installed either. Hopefully I'm just missing something simple!

Thanks all for your help on this This has certainly been the workaround that I've settled on up till now. Unfortunately for inner finishes in particular, it's usually the final component number, and that depends on how many other components make up the wall from the outside to in -which varies. Thanks Kevin - will give Pat's script a go when I have a chance. And certainly would be great for this to be a feature included within the main programme - it would really help our workflows.

Hi Kevin, thanks for this. Afraid this wasn't quite what I was after but I don't think I really explained the query very well. What I was looking for was a worksheet function that gives me the name of a component that has been given a specific "Function" in the wall/slab/etc. component settings - say for instance those set as "Inner Finish" (highlighted below). So in the below example I can return "Laminate panelling" for this wall using the material the component has via =CompNameByMat('603-High Pressure Laminate..') , but I was hoping to use "Function" instead to get this result. I was assuming it might be something along the lines of =CompNameByFunction('Inner Finish'), but couldn't see anything in the list of Worksheet Functions.

Does anyone know if there a worksheet function for getting the name of a component from its function ? For instance, if I wanted to get the component name of everything assigned as 'Inner Finish' or 'Insulation' etc. It would be great if there was something similar to CompNameByClass or CompNameByMat but I haven't found anything yet... Many thanks in advance.