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Change a Room's Category or Type Assignment

As business changes and you adjust your space to meet your needs, you may need to reconfigure your space, such as changing a training room into offices or converting offices to storage space. You can change a room's category or type assignment directly from the floor plan. Working from the floor plan enables you to see how space is used throughout the floor so that you know how your changes integrate with the entire floor configuration. For example, if you have a choice of converting one of two conference rooms to offices, visually seeing the location of these conference rooms can be an important factor in deciding which one to convert.

Procedure

1. Load the Space Console and choose Space mode.
2. Load the floor plans containing the rooms for which you want to change category or type assignment.
3. Highlight the floor plans by category or type so that you can see the current assignments.
4. In the bottom portion of the Space Console, move to the Room Categories tab.
5. Click on a room category to expand it to show their component room types.
6. For the room type or room category to which you wish to assign rooms, click the Assign button.
7. In the floor plan, click on all the rooms that you want to assign to the selected room category or room type. These rooms can be unassigned or already have a room category or type assignment.
8. Confirm the rooms that you have selected to change. In the floor plan, these rooms are outlined in gray.
   • If you are satisfied with the selection and do not need to review it, choose the Commit button, located above the floor plan.
   • If you would like to review the rooms whose category or type will be changed, select e the View Pending Assignments button, located above the floor plan. ARCHIBUS presents a form listing the current category or type and the category or type to which you will assign these rooms
   • To remove a room from the list, select it and choose the Cancel Assignments button. ARCHIBUS removes this item from the list.
   • When satisfied with the list of rooms to assign to the selected category or type, choose Commit Assignments from the form.
9. ARCHIBUS updates the affected rooms to display the highlight color of the new category or type. In the tab, ARCHIBUS updates the room count and room area information for this room category or type.

Other Methods

You may also wish to explore these methods of changing a room's category assignment:

Choose Rooms on the Floor Plan and Change their Properties

Edit Data Using the Space Console's Tabs