Creating report of plant list/schedule with only selected plants

[rbkla]

Can someone advise how to select the plants for a plant list/schedule (using pre-formatted report plant list-simple)? I am working on a large residential project, & the project is in phases. I’d like to make a list for just the back yard, just the front yard, etc. but the lists just update to include all plants. I know I am missing something. Thank you!

[Jeff Prince]

If you put your plants for different areas or phases of the design on different design layers, you can then set your plant list criteria to only report plants found on a particular design layer.  That will solve your issue.

[rbkla]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks so much for your response. Would you mind walking me thru the steps? I just don’t know how/where to do this when using the “plant list-simple” pre-formatted report. 
-Rose

[Jeff Prince]

@rbkla no problem, see attached file and image for an example. Basically, I created two design layers for planting, front and rear.  Using the default Vectorworks plants, I dropped some plants on each design layer.  Then, I made a sheet to demonstrate three different criteria based plant lists... one each for the entire project,  front yard, and back yard.  Using the report tool, I dropped a preformatted plant list into the drawing.  On subsequent plant lists, I renamed the report to reflect if it was for the front or rear.  Then, the criteria for each was modified to look for plants on a particular design layer in the case of front or back.  Attached images show how that works.  You highlight row 3, click the 'database' dropdown, and select edit criteria.  You can see an example of some database criteria in the last image or in the actual file I attached.

Hope it helps.

 

 

plantlists by design layer.vwx

[rbkla]

Thanks so much for your careful description, Jeff! It worked!

 

 

[2oaks]

I know this is an old thread, but this no longer works in VW 2022. Does anyone know how to create a phased plant schedule in the new worksheet modes?

 

Thanks

[Jeff Prince]

@2oaksthe file and process works fine in 2022.

[2oaks]

Respectfully, it does not.

[Jeff Prince]

3 hours ago, 2oaks said:

Respectfully, it does not.

The file and instructions I posted earlier in this thread works perfectly as expected in 2022.

 

Have you actually tried it?  Maybe you are doing something incorrectly.

[Heidi]

Oh my gosh amazing, thanks so much for this information Jeff, you have saved my sanity!!

 

works in VW 2022 👍