Applying Changes to Multiple Rooms

 

The process for editing a value across multiple rooms at once is the same as that outlined for the various cell-types above – the only difference is that before you perform the edit, you mark the rooms you want to apply the change to. You can mark a room by clicking its marking checkbox at the left-hand side of the grid.

 

The following example shows 4 rooms in a model that have been marked for edit:

 

The next image shows the same rooms, after clicking the checkbox in the Solar Reflected Fraction column for the room L00: Office and editing the value from 0.05 to 0.4:

As you can see, the changes to both the “From Template” checkbox and the fraction value were applied across all marked rooms. The changes will be applied regardless of the cell type – the process works in the same way for Basic Value cells, Dropdown List cells and Dropdown Window cells.

 

Bear in mind that there are cases where the specified value cannot be applied across all marked rooms. Consider the following example, involving Fixed Heating Capacity:

If you attempt to modify the value of Fixed Heating Capacity for room L01: NW Office to 5.1, the change will only be applied to the rooms L01: NW Office, L00: Office and L01: Room. It would not be applied to L01: Servers because that room is using “Unlimited” for its Simulation Heating Unit Capacity. Similarly, the change would not be applied to L02: Roof Void either – this is because that room has no main system, therefore the options for heating capacity are unavailable.

 

 

You can quickly mark all rooms for editing by clicking the checkbox next to the column headers:

When this checkbox is ticked, all rooms displayed in the current tab will be marked for editing. If you click the checkbox again, all rooms will be unmarked.

 

Alternatively, you can mark and unmark a room by clicking on its own marking checkbox. The grid will also mark a row in response to standard SHIFT-click and CTRL-click gestures – you can use these to mark ranges of rooms within the grid.

 

You can also unmark a room by right-clicking on it and selecting the Unmark “<Room Name>” item in the pop-up menu. Similarly, you can unmark all other rooms except the one you have right-clicked on by selecting the Unmark Other Rooms item.