We are batch creating Views and Dependent Views (currently only ViewPlans) via the Revit API in Revit 2019, 2020, and 2022. We are seeing the following inconsistent results in all three Revit versions.
Below is a simplified code snippet. On many but not all groups of three Duplicate Views, some Shared Parameters that are set in the View Template are present in the parent view, and child duplicate views 'B' and 'C' but not child duplicate view 'A'.
using (var transactionGroup = new TransactionGroup(document, "Create views and set parameter values"))
{
transactionGroup.Start();
var sectors = new["A", "B", "C"];
var viewLookup = new Dictionary<string, ElementId>();
using (var makeViewsTransaction = new Transaction(document, "Create views"))
{
makeViewsTransaction.Start();
ViewPlan mainPlan = ViewPlan.Create(document, viewFamilyTypeId, levelId);
mainPlan.Name = "Plan_Name_Sector";
viewLookup.Add(mainPlan.Name, mainPlan.Id);
if (mainPlan.CanViewBeDuplicated(ViewDuplicateOption.AsDependent))
{
foreach (string sector in sectors)
{
string viewName = mainPlan.Name + "_" + sector;
var childPlanId = mainPlan.Duplicate(ViewDuplicateOption.AsDependent);
var childPlan = document.GetElement(childPlanId) as ViewPlan;
childPlan.Name = viewName;
viewLookup.Add(childPlan.Name, childPlan.Id);
}
}
makeViewsTransaction.Commit();
}
using (var editViewsTransaction = new Transaction(document, "Set view parameters"))
{
editViewsTransaction.Start();
foreach (var entry in viewLookup)
{
var view = document.GetElement(entry.Value) as Autodesk.Revit.DB.View;
if (paramSet.ScopeBoxId.IntegerValue != ActionBroker.EmptyElementId.IntegerValue)
{
view.get_Parameter(BuiltInParameter.VIEWER_VOLUME_OF_INTEREST_CROP).Set(scopeBoxId);
}
}
editViewsTransaction.Commit();
}
transactionGroup.Assimilate();
}
Screenshot of a result sample showing the missing parameter values.
Has anyone else experienced this?
It seems to me like a pretty straight-forward use of the Revit API, but perhaps the transaction group is introducing problems? I'm not sure what we could/should do differently to get more consistent results. Any suggestions?
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I am creating a plugin that makes use of the code available from BCFier to select elements from an external server version of the file and highlight them in a Revit view, except the elements are clearly not found in Revit as all elements appear and none are highlighted. The specific pieces of code I am using are:
private void SelectElements(Viewpoint v)
{
var elementsToSelect = new List<ElementId>();
var elementsToHide = new List<ElementId>();
var elementsToShow = new List<ElementId>();
var visibleElems = new FilteredElementCollector(OpenPlugin.doc, OpenPlugin.doc.ActiveView.Id)
.WhereElementIsNotElementType()
.WhereElementIsViewIndependent()
.ToElementIds()
.Where(e => OpenPlugin.doc.GetElement(e).CanBeHidden(OpenPlugin.doc.ActiveView)); //might affect performance, but it's necessary
bool canSetVisibility = (v.Components.Visibility != null &&
v.Components.Visibility.DefaultVisibility &&
v.Components.Visibility.Exceptions.Any());
bool canSetSelection = (v.Components.Selection != null && v.Components.Selection.Any());
//loop elements
foreach (var e in visibleElems)
{
//string guid = ExportUtils.GetExportId(OpenPlugin.doc, e).ToString();
var guid = IfcGuid.ToIfcGuid(ExportUtils.GetExportId(OpenPlugin.doc, e));
Trace.WriteLine(guid.ToString());
if (canSetVisibility)
{
if (v.Components.Visibility.DefaultVisibility)
{
if (v.Components.Visibility.Exceptions.Any(x => x.IfcGuid == guid))
elementsToHide.Add(e);
}
else
{
if (v.Components.Visibility.Exceptions.Any(x => x.IfcGuid == guid))
elementsToShow.Add(e);
}
}
if (canSetSelection)
{
if (v.Components.Selection.Any(x => x.IfcGuid == guid))
elementsToSelect.Add(e);
}
}
try
{
OpenPlugin.HandlerSelect.elementsToSelect = elementsToSelect;
OpenPlugin.HandlerSelect.elementsToHide = elementsToHide;
OpenPlugin.HandlerSelect.elementsToShow = elementsToShow;
OpenPlugin.selectEvent.Raise();
} catch (System.Exception ex)
{
TaskDialog.Show("Exception", ex.Message);
}
}
Which is the section that should filter the lists, which it does do as it produces IDs that look like this:
3GB5RcUGnAzQe9amE4i4IN
3GB5RcUGnAzQe9amE4i4Ib
3GB5RcUGnAzQe9amE4i4J6
3GB5RcUGnAzQe9amE4i4JH
3GB5RcUGnAzQe9amE4i4Ji
3GB5RcUGnAzQe9amE4i4J$
3GB5RcUGnAzQe9amE4i4GD
3GB5RcUGnAzQe9amE4i4Gy
3GB5RcUGnAzQe9amE4i4HM
3GB5RcUGnAzQe9amE4i4HX
3GB5RcUGnAzQe9amE4i4Hf
068MKId$X7hf9uMEB2S_no
The trouble with this is, comparing it to the list of IDs in the IFC file that we imported it from reveals that these IDs do not appear in the IFC file, and looking at it in Revit I found that none of the Guids in Revit weren't in the list that appeared either. Almost all the objects also matched the same main part of the IDs as well, and I'm not experienced enough to know how likely that is.
So my question is, is it something in this code that is an issue?
The IFC GUID is based on the Revit UniqueId but not identical. Please read about the Element Identifiers in RVT, IFC, NW and Forge to learn how they are connected.
I am updating a SharePoint list item using the ValidateUpdateListItem method of the client-side object model to prevent creation of a new item version. This basically works fine for all fields except the ones with person or group field type. Does anyone know what is the correct string representation of a user or group value to be used as FieldValue of an ListItemFormUpdateValue object? I have already tried everything that seems reasonable to me (user ID from User Info, login name, lookup-value like combinations of these data etc.) without any success.
I just ran into a problem where updating more than 12 person or group fields with item update caused it to throw an exception. Apparently this is caused due to the list view look up threshold in SP online (12 as of this date).
http://blog.vanmeeuwen-online.nl/2012/07/value-does-not-fall-within-expected.html
To work around that I used the ValidateUpdateListItem method to update the person or group ids. The trick is to assign it a json in the format of
[{"Key":"i:0#.f|membership|user#yoursite.onmicrosoft.com"}]
formValues.Add(new ListItemFormUpdateValue() { FieldName = "AssignedTo", FieldValue = "[{'Key':'i:0#.f|membership|user#yoursite.onmicrosoft.com'}]" });
For multiple values, it can be comma separated. Have not tried it with group but i think it should work.
Hopefully this can be useful for someone.
Unfortunately ListItem.ValidateUpdateListItem method does not support the update of user field value. For example, in the following example AssignedTo field will not be updated:
using (var ctx = GetContext(webUri, userName, password))
{
var list = ctx.Web.Lists.GetByTitle(listTitle);
var item = list.GetItemById(itemId);
var formValues = new List<ListItemFormUpdateValue>();
formValues.Add(new ListItemFormUpdateValue() { FieldName = "Title", FieldValue = taskName});
formValues.Add(new ListItemFormUpdateValue() { FieldName = "AssignedTo", FieldValue = userId.ToString() }); //not supported
item.ValidateUpdateListItem(formValues, true, string.Empty);
ctx.ExecuteQuery();
}
Instead consider ListItem.Update Method to update user field value as demonstrated below:
using (var ctx = GetContext(webUri, userName, password))
{
var list = ctx.Web.Lists.GetByTitle(listTitle);
var item = list.GetItemById(itemId);
item["Title"] = taskName;
var assignedToValue = new FieldUserValue() { LookupId = userId };
var assignedToValues = new[] { assignedToValue };
item["AssignedTo"] = assignedToValues; //multi-valued user field
item.Update();
ctx.ExecuteQuery();
}
I have an item bucket with more then 30 000 items inside. What I need is to quickly search items that have particular field set to particular value, or even better is to make something like SELECT WHERE fieldValue IN (1,2,3,4) statement. Are there any ready solutions?
I searched the web and the only thing I found is "Developer's Guide to Item
Buckets and Search" but there is no code examples.
You need something like this. The Bucket item is an IIndexable so it can be searched using Sitecore 7 search API.
This code snippet below can easily be adapted to meet your needs and it's just a question of modifying the where clause.if you need any further help with the sitecore 7 syntax just write a comment on the QuickStart blog post below and I'll get back to you.
var bucketItem = Sitecore.Context.Database.GetItem(bucketPath);
if (bucketItem != null && BucketManager.IsBucket(bucketItem))
{
using (var searchContext = ContentSearchManager.GetIndex(bucketItem as IIndexable).CreateSearchContext())
{
var result = searchContext.GetQueryable<SearchResultItem().Where(x => x.Name == itemName).FirstOrDefault();
if(result != null)
Context.Item = result.GetItem();
}
}
Further reading on my blog post here:
http://coreblimey.azurewebsites.net/sitecore-7-search-quick-start-guide/
Using Sitecore Content Editor:
Go to the bucket item then In search tab, start typing the following (replace fieldname and value with actual field name and value):
custom:fieldname|value
Then hit enter, you see the result of the query, you can multiple queries at once if you want.
Using Sitecore Content Search API:
using Sitecore.ContentSearch;
using Sitecore.ContentSearch.Linq;
using Sitecore.ContentSearch.SearchTypes;
using Sitecore.ContentSearch.Linq.Utilities
ID bucketItemID = "GUID of your bucket item";
ID templateID = "Guid of your item's template under bucket";
string values = "1,2,3,4,5";
using (var context = ContentSearchManager.GetIndex("sitecore_web_index").CreateSearchContext())
{
var predicate = PredicateBuilder.True<SearchResultItem>();
predicate = PredicateBuilder.And(item => item.TemplateId == new ID(templateID)
&& item.Paths.Contains(bucketItemID));
var innerPredicate = PredicateBuilder.False<SearchResultItem>();
foreach(string val in values.Split(','))
{
innerPredicate = PredicateBuilder.False<SearchResultItem>();
innerPredicate = innerPredicate.Or(item => item["FIELDNAME"] == val);
}
predicate = predicate.And(innerPredicate);
var result = predicate.GetResults();
List<Item> ResultsItems = new List<Item>();
foreach (var hit in result.Hits)
{
Item item = hit.Document.GetItem();
if(item !=null)
{
ResultsItems .Add(item);
}
}
}
The following links can give good start with the Search API:
http://www.fusionworkshop.co.uk/news-and-insight/tech-lab/sitecore-7-search-a-quickstart-guide#.VPw8AC4kWnI
https://www.sitecore.net/learn/blogs/technical-blogs/sitecore-7-development-team/posts/2013/06/sitecore-7-poco-explained.aspx
https://www.sitecore.net/learn/blogs/technical-blogs/sitecore-7-development-team/posts/2013/05/sitecore-7-predicate-builder.aspx
Hope this helps!
I would like to re-use a notes view in a web browser, Therefor I need the notes view (with response documents hierarchy) represented in HTML as an unordered list (ul) with list items (li).
What SSJS code should I use to compute this list?
None.
If you can edit the view, set it to passthru HTML and add one column at the beginning and end with the list tags. Set them hidden from client.
Or bind it to a repeat control and have the Li tags inside with computed text bound to the view columns. No SsJS in both cases.
NotesViewEntry.getPosition(Char separator) gives a hierarchical output. For example with the separator defined as "." it will give 3 for the third top-level entry, 3.5 for the fifth child of the third top-level entry, 3.5.7 for the seventh child of the fifth child of the third top-level entry.
To elaborate on Stephan's second option, a Repeat Control doesn't care about the structure of the data it's retrieving. It's a handle to a collection, where each "row" is one element in that collection. So if you point it to a collection which is myView.getAllEntries(), each entry is a NotesViewEntry.
Combine the two and you have the level of the hierarchy, if you want to just use indentation. Alternatively, from a NotesViewEntry you can tell if there are children, so whether you need to make it another li or start another ul.
Alternatively, if you want to get more elaborate, look at how I traverse views to create a Dojo Tree Grid navigation in XPages Help Application http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/project.xsp?action=openDocument&name=XPages%20Help%20Application
not the most beautiful code. I hope it works;
function getList() {
var nav:NotesViewNavigator=database.getView("notesview").createViewNav();
var entry:NotesViewEntry=nav.getFirst();
if (entry!=null){
var countLevel:Integer = 0;
var curLevel:Integer;
var list="";
while (entry != null) {
var edoc:NotesDocument = entry.getDocument();
entryValue = entry.getColumnValues().elementAt(1).toString();
var col:NotesDocumentCollection = edoc.getResponses();
var gotResponse:String;
if (col.getCount()>0){
gotResponse ="1";
}
else{
gotResponse ="0";
}
curLevel = entry.getColumnIndentLevel();
if (curLevel<countLevel){
//no responses & no siblings
var difLevel=countLevel-curLevel;
list=list + "<li>"+entryValue+ "</li>"
var closure="";
for (var i=0;i<(difLevel);i++) {
closure=closure+"</ul></li>"
}
list=list+closure;
countLevel=curLevel;
}
if (curLevel==countLevel){
if(gotResponse=="1"){
//got responses;handle them first
list=list+"<li>";
list=list+entryValue;
list=list+"<ul>";
countLevel=curLevel+1;
}
else{
//must be sibling
list=list + "<li>"+entryValue+ "</li>"
}
}
var tmpentry:NotesViewEntry=nav.getNext(entry);
entry.recycle();
entry=tmpentry;
}
//final closure, last entry could be response doc
var closure = ""
for (var i = 0; i < (countLevel); i++) {
closure = closure + "</ul></li>";
}
list = list + closure;
return list;
} else {
return "No documents found";
}
}
Iam using the ServiceStack.Text JsonObject parser to map into my domain model. I basically have anthing working, except when using Linq to filter on ArrayObject and the try to convert it using convertAll. Iam cannot come arround actuall after using link, adding element by element to an JsonArrayObjects list and then pass it.
var tmpList = x.Object("references").ArrayObjects("image").Where(y => y.Get<int>("type") != 1).ToList();
JsonArrayObjects tmpStorage = new JsonArrayObjects();
foreach (var pic in tmpList) {
tmpStorage.Add(pic);
}
if (tmpStorage.Count > 0) {
GalleryPictures = tmpStorage.ConvertAll(RestJsonToModelMapper.jsonToImage);
}
Question:
Is there a more elegant way to get from IEnumarable back to JsonArrayObjects?
Casting will not work, since where copys elements into a list, instead of manipulating the old one, therefor the result is not an downcasted JsonArrayObjects, rather a new List object.
Best
Considering this more elegant is arguable, but I would probably do:
var tmpStorage = new JsonArrayObjects();
tmpList.ForEach(pic => tmpStorage.Add(RestJsonToModelMapper.jsonToImage(pic)));
And if this kind of conversion is used frequently, you may create an extension method:
public static JsonArrayObjects ToJsonArrayObjects(this IEnumerable<JsonObject> pics)
{
var tmpStorage = new JsonArrayObjects();
foreach(var pic in pics)
{
tmpStorage.Add(RestJsonToModelMapper.jsonToImage(pic));
}
return tmpStorage;
}
This way you would end up with simpler consumer code:
var tmpStorage = x.Object("references")
.ArrayObjects("image")
.Where(y => y.Get<int>("type") != 1)
.ToJsonArrayObjects();
Like this?
var pictures = x.Object("references")
.ArrayObjects("image")
.Where(y => y.Get<int>("type") != 1)
.Select(RestJsonToModelMapper.JsonToImage)
.ToList();