Finishes schedule no more editable ??

[J_C]

Hello,

In VW2024 I was able to edit finishes in a worksheet by using the records "Floor finish edit" "Ceiling finish edit", with a pop-up menu, copy-paste etc.

In VW2025 the finishes structure has been reworked and I can't find an equivalent. I can only display the finishes… This is a major loss to implement/check/edit finishes.

 

 

Did I miss something ?

Should we move back to 2024 ??

[Jonathan Pickup]

all I can offer is that you can right-click on the worksheet and select the space. 

[J_C]

Thank you for the reply Jonathan !

Fyi, my conclusion so far is that I'd better use a custom text record - which remain editable from a worksheet - than the built-in finishes system.

 

Best,

[Jonathan Pickup]

1 hour ago, J_C said:

Thank you for the reply Jonathan !

Fyi, my conclusion so far is that I'd better use a custom text record - which remain editable from a worksheet - than the built-in finishes system.

 

Best,

if you are going to do that, at least make the record format a pop-up list to ensure consistency ...

[Kevin S]

@Jonathan Pickup is correct. Currently the best option to access, edit and assign room finishes from worksheets is to select the row, right-click, and choose 'Select Item.' Then click the 'Assign Room Finishes' button on the OIP to access the entire space object at once.

 

This is the direct result of going to a multiple room finish solution with the existing worksheet resource. If you want to use a 2024-style schedule instead of the 2025 ones, you will only have access to a single finish per surface, but it will work as it did in 2024.

 

Hope this is helpful.

[David Poiron]

We have the same issue. So what are the settings needed to go back to the 2024 style schedule? When we imported an older file into 2025, this broke the worksheet (old functions just gave errors) - we then found through the create report command that the finishes schedule now uses the object data function (which is not well documented). In lieu of using this, how do we get back to using a pop-up menu in the finishes worksheet for floors, base and wall finishes?

[Kevin S]

On 5/23/2025 at 5:47 PM, David Poiron said:

We have the same issue. So what are the settings needed to go back to the 2024 style schedule? When we imported an older file into 2025, this broke the worksheet (old functions just gave errors) - we then found through the create report command that the finishes schedule now uses the object data function (which is not well documented). In lieu of using this, how do we get back to using a pop-up menu in the finishes worksheet for floors, base and wall finishes?

 

Vectorworks 2025 does not have the capability to display a popup menu for multiple finishes. This is a limitation in the workspace interface and why a right-click to navigate to the space object is now the suggested workflow.

 

If you are finding that importing a 2024 file into 2025 is breaking the prior worksheets, please feel free to post the file here (or send it to me via DM) so it can be looked at as a possible bug. I tested in 2024 to 2025 this morning and found no change in the behavior in the 2024 Room Finish Schedule version. It should be displaying the popup list, but will limit you to only displaying one finish for the space.

 

[ EDIT: I see what you're talking about now. All separate libraries are now combined into a single library in 2025. Moving forward there is only a single finish library to use and maintain. ]

 

I would love for us to have a multi-selectable interface in worksheets at some point in the future, but so far as I know, there is no timetable for that to be implemented.