Search FindIncremental vs FindAll

[JohnHon]

Dear all,

In the Search class, there are two methods for us to get the search result, named FindIncremental vs FindAll.

May I know what is the difference between them?

Thank you.

John

[xiaodong_liang · Accepted solution]

Hi John,

happy new year! 

As far as I know, the only difference of the two methods is: FindIncremental is designed to work with these LINQ-style statements.e.g.the below is a demo code snippet our experts delivered on AU course:

//searching all the “Stairs” to find items where the “price” is greater than £100

Search search = new Search();

search.Selection.SelectAll();
search.SearchConditions.Add(
  SearchCondition.HasPropertyByName("LcRevitData“,
                         "LcRevitPropertyElementCategory").
    EqualValue(VariantData.FromDisplayString("Stairs")));

IEnumerable<ModelItem> expensive_items =
   from item in search.FindIncremental(Application.ActiveDocument, false);
   where ItemPrice(item) > 100
   select item;

[JohnHon]

Hi Xiaodong,

Happy new year!

Thank you for your point as well as the code snippet.

It makes me clear!

Best Regards,

John