Improvement Idea: Active Enforcement of Rules

[joslindave]

Your plugin is a huge step in the right direction, and something Revit should have had natively long ago. Thanks!

Here's my idea, and I'm calling it an idea rather than request because I'm not even sure it's possible. It would be awesome if there was the option to set a rule, and then have it actively enforce the rule as elements/parameters are modified. This would let the rules become proactive rather than reactive, heading off some user error.

It's something I wouldn't even know where to start with coding-wise (pretty much any plugin is beyond my coding ability), but hopefully it's something someone smarter than me can take a pass at (assuming it's even possible in the realm of plugins; I could see this functionality requiring some deep ties into Revit).

[OliverEGreen]

Hi joslindave,

thanks for trying out the plugin, I'm glad it's been a help. It would be possible to do, you can define custom warnings and errors within Revit (a bit like "Elements have duplicate Mark values").

Proactive rule enforcement is definitely difficult, given teams are often under pressure and might find such pop-ups annoying. But technically it's definitely possible and shouldn't be too hard to integrate into the plugin.

Perhaps if more users also think this is a great idea I'll begin a branch for automatic warnings if rules are breached.