Specpoint Help for A/E Users

Using the Help Search
Using the Help Search
  • Phrase:Returns all topics that contain the exact phrase in the search criteria. Use quotation marks around the phrase.
    Ex."system administration"
  • And:Returns all topics that contain all the words in the search criteria, in any combination. Insert a plus sign between all words in the search criteria.
    Ex.system + administration
  • Or:Returns all topics with any combination of words in the search criteria. This is the default.
    Ex.system administration
For more information:Searching Online Help

Option Set (Office Master)

In a given paragraph, use an option set to provide your firm's design professionals with options for selection or input. This enables your firm's design professionals to specify properties according to their project requirements and within your firm-wide standards and best practices.

Typically, baseline paragraphs include option sets to provide authors with guided property selection. Examples of these property selections are measurements, materials, and inclusions. As a member of the office master access group, you can configure options sets within paragraphs in your office master families. This enables your design professionals that use these families to specify firm-level project requirements without deviating from baseline content and retain formatting that is readable by Specpoint's product selection.

Input Types

The following types of option sets are available based on input method:

Type Structure
Single-Select ‘or’ (‘or’ isn’t always explicit) (Option 1) (Option 2)
Custom Entry or Text Field [Insert]
Single Select with Text Field (Option 1) (Option 2) [Insert]
Multi-Select (Option 1) (Option 2)
Multi-Select with ‘and’ (Option 1) (Option 2) (and) (Option 3)
Unit of Measure (UOM) Entry ([Unit A] [Unit B])
Unit of Measure (UOM) Selection (Unit 1-A [Unit 1-B]) (Unit 2-A [Unit 2-B])
Combination of any of the above in one sentence A combination of the paragraph content and option sets of different types
You can configure these types of option sets in your office master family's paragraphs. To configure option sets, you can perform the following actions:
  • Add an option to an existing option set.
  • Create a new option set within a paragraph's contents.
  • Modify an option's value.
  • Remove an option.