Bachibouzouk
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1 month ago I like the idea, it goes a bit in the direction of a library of existing component characteristics from the market.
I see a confusion possible with "save as template" and "save and return to design" buttons. Templates need to be updated with latest prices and efficiencies, so the year the template was last updated would be useful here
For a better user-friendliness, I think we wanted to implement the option to create more predefined components. I think it would be good to have the option to choose a specific parameter set when opening the component. I would suggest to do that with a dropdown list under the name of the component, at the position as shown below.
For creating these parameter templates and integrating them into the tool I think we should implement an option to "save the parameter set as template" as a button somewhere in the component form, with a typical save file symbol. When saving the parameter set, there should be a dialog asking whether to save it for this project only or for this account, or "request to add this as a standard template " This would allow us/the community to create new component templates, with an admin admitting them to the tool.
We should also add some kind of description popup that one can be filled out in the dialog when saving the component. The description would be shown when hovered over an info symbol added to the component.
We therefore need some kind of component databank with different levels:
standard-template: visible for everybody account-component-template: visible anywhere in the account project-component-template: visible only in the project (and its copies)
Opinions on that?