topic Get links in active document in Revit API Forum

Get links in active document

ottosson_mathias — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 08:52:08 GMT

I want to get all the linked files of the active document. But when I use a FilteredElementCollector with OfClass RevitLinkType I get all opened documents and their linked files! I only want the linked files of the current document. Not the the open document, just links 🙂

var links = new FilteredElementCollector(document).OfClass(typeof(RevitLinkType));

If not possible, how can I determine if the RevitLinkType in my filteredElementCollector is from the current document?

Thanks!

Re: Get links in active document

jeremytammik — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 09:47:01 GMT

Does this previous thread answer your question?

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/find-revitlinks-is-loaded-or-unloaded/td-p/6819396

Re: Get links in active document

ottosson_mathias — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 10:51:40 GMT

Thanks Jeremy, it helped med to continue my search where I found this post which did exactly what I needed: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/getlinkdocument-broken-in-2020/m-p/9385210.

Is it just me or is it difficult to get good search results on this forum search?

Re: Get links in active document

jeremytammik — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 10:59:12 GMT

Thank you for the additional link.

I totally agree that it is difficult, and that applies to just about every search engine I know.

Typepad is much worse.

Google and DuckDuckGo seem to provide decent results.

I just implemented my own full-text search, and that is not perfect either, as it stands now:

https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2020/09/optimising-parameters-and-full-text-search.html

Maybe you really need a bit of natural language processing (NLP) to be able to achieve really good functionality.

And with the speed at which that technology is currently advancing, I think much better results than we are used to should be achievable today without too much effort.