change phase of a view

[sabatierae]

Is it possible to change the phase of a view? Something like view.phase ? I've tried with the created pohase but it doesn't work..

Thank for your help !

[jeremytammik]

Does this old post help?

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2009/03/create-room-on-level-in-phase.html

Please look specifically at the reply to most recent comment by Jared:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2009/03/create-room-on-level-in-phase.html#comment-6a00e553...

Cheers,

Jeremy

[sabatierae]

Hi Jeremy

I've tried what you explain on the blog but I don't know why it doesn't work..

  View active = commandData.Application.ActiveUIDocument.ActiveGraphicalView;
foreach (Phase ii in phase)
{
Parameter p = active.get_Parameter(BuiltInParameter.VIEW_PHASE);
                            ElementId iiId = ii.Id;
                            p.SetValueString(iiId);
}

 Thank for your help !

[jeremytammik · Accepted solution]

Dear Sabatierae,

How is your variable 'phase' defined?

Have you checked what storage type the built-in parameter VIEW_PHASE is expecting?

You can use RevitLookup to explore it.

Whatever storage type it it expecting, I am pretty sure that you cannot set it using SetValueString.

I would expect the storage type to be ElementId, in which case you need to set it using the element id directly, e.g. like this:

p.Set(iiId);

I hope this helps.

Best regards,

Jeremy

[sabatierae]

Yeah it works !!

phase is defined : PhaseArray phase = doc.Phases;

Here is the code :

ElementId iiId = ii.Id;
Parameter p = active.get_Parameter(BuiltInParameter.VIEW_PHASE);
p.Set(iiId);

 with :

ii a Phase

active a view

Thank a lot!

[jeremytammik · Accepted solution]

Dear Sabatierae,

Thank you for the confirmation!

I went ahead and promoted this to a proper blog post on its own to ensure it is easily found by others as well:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2014/08/setting-the-phase-of-a-view.html

Best regards,

Jeremy