It’s common for Shared Parameters from various sources to show up in your project files, preventing your project schedules from being populated with the correct data. Guardian addresses this issue by allowing you to map these Shared Parameters to those already in your project. Even when the Shared Parameter is embedded into a formula or has a formula assigned, Guardian will make all necessary updates to keep the formulas intact.
If you have ever used any manufacturer’s content, whether it is a sink or a refrigerator, then you know how many shared parameters are baked into those families. Each family contains the entire catalog of shared parameters available by the manufacturer regardless of if it is used or not. As projects progress and more and more outside families are loaded in, all the extraneous shared parameters make their way into the file even when they will never be used.
Guardian identifies all the shared parameters in your project models and provides you the means to map them you to other shared parameters in the project model or to your firm's shared parameter file.
As Revit families are inserted into your project models Guardian gets to work by identifying the incoming shared parameters, allowing you to map them to the shared parameters in the project model.
