topic Re: is there any analog of LabelUtils.GetLabel(BuiltIncategory) earlier than 2020? in Revit API Forum

is there any analog of LabelUtils.GetLabel(BuiltIncategory) earlier than 2020?

Extraneous — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 19:49:59 GMT

Hi everyone,

Is there any analog of the method LabelUtils.GetLabel for BuiltInCategory? It has been introduced only in Revit 2020, but I need to show the translated list of categories in 2019 and earlier. Thank you in advance!

Re: is there any analog of LabelUtils.GetLabel(BuiltIncategory) earlier than 2020?

jeremy_tammik — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 20:26:50 GMT

I should think that for all the categories available in the document, you can say:

void BuiltInCategoryNames( Document doc ) { Categories categories = doc.Settings.Categories; Array bics = Enum.GetValues( typeof( BuiltInCategory ) ); foreach( BuiltInCategory bic in bics ) { try { Category cat = categories.get_Item( bic ); Debug.Print( cat.Name ); } catch( Exception ) { } } }

Check out The Building Coder samples CmdCategories, especially at the end:

https://github.com/jeremytammik/the_building_coder_samples/blob/master/BuildingCoder/BuildingCoder/CmdCategories.cs

Re: is there any analog of LabelUtils.GetLabel(BuiltIncategory) earlier than 2020?

Extraneous — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 20:52:09 GMT

Yes, it was easy, Category.Name shows a translated name of category. It could be guessed by myself 🙂

Thank you Jeremy!