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Related Content Overview

Connect different pieces of content to enhance navigation and build relationships between content in AVAIL.

What is Related Content in AVAIL?

Related Content is a feature of AVAIL that allows you to create relationships between items indexed into AVAIL. Anything that can be indexed into AVAIL, including files and URLs, can participate in these relationships. 

The purpose of Related Content is to represent the fact that individual files are often part of a broader idea, assembly, system, product, project, or workflow. The related items remain distinct resources, but AVAIL connects them so users can move easily between them. 

  • A detail or schedule that is expected any time a specific Revit family is used.
  • The specifications for a manufacturer's content.
  • An important safety or installation document for a piece of content.

Relating content ensures that helpful or necessary relevant content items in the AVAIL library are immediately available along with the content itself.

Guiding question:

“Is this a separate content resource that the user may want to discover or use?”

If the answer is yes, it should generally be Related Content.

Automatic Related Content using Harvest

When processing a Revit sheet, AVAIL can associate the individual details, legends, and schedules that make up the sheet as Related Content.

When processing a drafting view, AVAIL can associate its Detail Items, Groups, System Families, and Annotations. 

How to Manually Relate Content

  1. Find the item that you would like to relate content to.
  2. Select the name of the file to open the Content View window.
  3. Select the Edit Related Content button.
  4. In the main AVAIL window, find the items that you would like to relate
  5. Drag content from the main AVAIL window to the new Category area or to an existing Category in the Content View window.
    1. If assigning a Category, select from the list of existing Categories or select the Create New Category button to enter a new Category.
  6. Select Done


What content can be related? Anything that can be indexed into AVAIL, including files and URLs, can participate in these relationships. Content from Marketplace Channels can also be related.

How to View & Use Related Content

There are two options to view Related Content

  1. Option 1: Select the name of the file to open the Content View window. Related Content will be displayed in the left panel of the window.
  2. Option 2: Select an item and then select the Related Content button on the right side of the app.
  3. Drag and drop or double-click Related Content to open, just like other content in AVAIL.

Important Note: Related Content is accessible to the viewer even if they don’t have access to the source Channel the Related Content comes from.

Editing Related Content & Categories

How to edit a Related Content Category 
  1. Select the name of the file to open the Content View window
  2. Select the Edit Related Content button
  3. Drag the item to the area labeled Drag Content to add new Category
  4. Select from the list of existing Categories or select the Create New Category button to enter a new Category.
  5. While in Edit mode in the Content View window, select the Up or Down arrows to move a Category respectively

Important note: When editing or deleting a Related Content Category, be aware that Categories exist at the account level, they are not unique to a single Channel.

Helpful tip: Expand or collapse Categories using the arrows next to the Category, or use the Expand/Collapse Categories button to expand or collapse all.

How to Remove Related Content

  1. While in Edit mode in the Content View window, select the X to remove Related Content

Manage Related Content Categories

  1. While in Edit mode in the Content View window, select the Manage Categories button
    1. Select Create New Category to add a completely new Category
    2. Double-click an existing Category to edit the Category name
    3. Select the Eye button to Hide or Unhide a Category 
    4. Select the button to delete a Category

CAUTION: When editing or deleting a Category, be aware that Categories exist at the account level, they are not unique to a single Channel.

Related Content in an AVAIL Host in Cloud Channel

The cloud version of content will be used for any content added as Related Content from an AVAIL Host in Cloud Channel.

Downloaded Related Content will go to the standard AVAIL Host in Cloud cache location, %localappdata%\Avail\cache\content.

Best Practices

Using Related Content when:

  1. One content item is meaningfully connected to another content item.
  2. The related item has value or identity on its own.
  3. A user may want to navigate to, inspect, download, load, or reuse the related item.
  4. The relationship expresses composition, dependency, association, similarity, or membership in a larger system.
  5. The connection should support broader discovery across AVAIL.