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X5 Macro identifiers are unique, but inconsistently applied.
I've attached a plan where I've played around with the window and door schedules. For each unit I specified the label "%automatic_label%:[%room.name%]". Notice the doors are either 3068:[] or 3068:[Family] or 3068:[Hall] and the windows are either 3048DH:[] or 3048DH:[Family] or 3048DH:[Hall]
If you Select and Grab the ones with [] for their room name and slide them up/down on the walls. You'll notice they change to include the room name at some points and then contain no room name at other points along the walls. This is because the "Exterior" room (the grey perimeter box that appears when you click just outside of a plan) has no formal %room.name% in Chief.
Looking at my interior wall and you will see Chief can't make up its mind which room a unit belongs in. It chooses [Family] for the lower part of the wall and [Hall] for the upper part. Tech support has been notified and is looking into this. You can slide these units up and down to watch them change their names, too.
Beyond fixing this glitch, I'm thinking if the DBX for these units included a selector for which room we would like them to belong to, then our schedules for these units could be organized/separated/ or easily identified by their room name. If the selector simply defaulted to interior rooms versus exterior, then all units would have an associated %room.name%
It would save a lot of time hunting/matching window/door codes if the code was allowed to include the room name. For instance, a schedule that says W01 - 3012FX[Dining] Quantity 3 immediately tells us there's 3 transoms in the dining room without looking on the plan to see where W01 is (which for transoms generally means its hidden by the label for the window underneath it.)
Let me know your thoughts.