Rearrange Column Order in a Schedule (Plant Schedule, Reference Notes Schedule, Irrigation Schedule, Etc.)

Issue

You want the freedom to rearrange or reorder the columns in your schedules.

You may have looked at our standard options for organizing a schedule and want to instead match your previous company standards that had the columns in a different order. For example, you may want:

• Quantity (QTY) column first
• Remarks column always last
• Different order for user fields

• Plant Schedules
• Concept Plant Schedules
• Reference Notes (RefNotes) Schedules
• Other site schedules such as the Zoning Schedule, Grading Schedule, etc.
• Irrigation Schedules

In the interest of keeping our software easy to use – and limited by some restrictions from the CAD platform – we’ve decided to limit the built-in arrangement options to more widely accepted arrangements for most schedule types. We've added a Column Order button to our Plant and RefNotes Schedule dialog boxes for easy column rearrangement. For other schedule types, you can easily rearrange your columns at will while also keeping the ability to regenerate the schedule.

Solution

• Plant & RefNotes schedules
• Other schedules (other site schedules, Concept Plant Schedules, Irrigation Schedules, etc.)

Plant & RefNotes schedules

We've added Column Order buttons to our Plant and RefNote Schedule dialog boxes, which allow for easy column reordering. For instructions, see our documentation on rearranging the column order of:

• Plant Schedules
• RefNotes Schedules

Other schedules (other site schedules, Concept Plant Schedules, Irrigation Schedules, etc.)

Here's how to rearrange the columns in other schedule types:

1. Place the schedule in Model Space.

2. Open a Paper Space Layout tab.

3. Create a viewport around your schedule in Paper Space. Zoom in until the text is your desired size. Move the boundaries of the viewport to accommodate the entire schedule.

4. Make a copy of that viewport to the side.

You'll now have two identical copies of your schedule that you can configure to show different portions of your schedule. You can now splice the schedule together in a different column order in Paper Space using multiple schedules.

In the following example, we've used multiple cropped viewports to move the QTY column so it appears first in our example schedule.