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    <title>idea API - Make Area Type elements more accessible en Revit Ideas</title>
    <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/api-make-area-type-elements-more-accessible/idi-p/10956789</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;The Area Type property of an Area is stored as an element that has no identifying properties. No name and no category.&amp;nbsp; They can only be found by using &lt;SPAN&gt;GetDependentElements&lt;/SPAN&gt; on an area scheme.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The request is to make these more identifiable through name, parameter, and/or category.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;A workaround that uses transactions can be found in this API Forum post:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/set-area-type-property-of-area-element/td-p/10946478" target="_blank"&gt;https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/set-area-type-property-of-area-element/td-p/10946478&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;While this does work, its not the most elegant solution that we could have.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2022 15:18:30 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>michael-coffey</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2022-02-17T15:18:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>API - Make Area Type elements more accessible</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/api-make-area-type-elements-more-accessible/idi-p/10956789</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;The Area Type property of an Area is stored as an element that has no identifying properties. No name and no category.&amp;nbsp; They can only be found by using &lt;SPAN&gt;GetDependentElements&lt;/SPAN&gt; on an area scheme.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The request is to make these more identifiable through name, parameter, and/or category.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;A workaround that uses transactions can be found in this API Forum post:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/set-area-type-property-of-area-element/td-p/10946478" target="_blank"&gt;https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/set-area-type-property-of-area-element/td-p/10946478&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;While this does work, its not the most elegant solution that we could have.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2022 15:18:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>michael-coffey</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-02-17T15:18:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: API - Make Area Type elements more accessible</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/api-make-area-type-elements-more-accessible/idc-p/11803653#M50084</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;It would be very beneficial to be able to establish a project specific list of area types for each Area Scheme.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Even to just be able to translate the text to another language.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2023 09:29:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>dtBAGKQ</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-03-07T09:29:06Z</dc:date>
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