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Revit 2020 API: ViewName Property Missing

Anonymous — Wed, 08 May 2019 18:02:45 GMT

On the Revit Documentation is noted that on Revit 2020 the ViewName Property is no longer available as it was for the preview versions of Revit. I cannot find an explanation for that. Any idea how to solve that?

http://www.revitapidocs.com/2020/d13cf4c1-1f5f-e7af-8aed-91197ee24b92.htm

Re: Revit 2020 API: ViewName Property Missing

ahmadizm — Wed, 08 May 2019 19:47:48 GMT

I think you can just use the Name property (inherited from Element).

Re: Revit 2020 API: ViewName Property Missing

jeremytammik — Thu, 09 May 2019 05:29:26 GMT

Dear Luis,

Thank you for your query, and many thanks to @ahmadizm for his helpful suggestion, with which I fully agree.

Unfortunately, the removal of this property was not mentioned in What's New in the Revit 2020 API:

https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2019/04/whats-new-in-the-revit-2020-api.html

Sorry about that.

What a handy link and nice multi-version comparison functionality provided by RevitApiDocs! Goes to show that automatically generated documentation sometimes has significant advantages.

Best regards,

Jeremy

Re: Revit 2020 API: ViewName Property Missing

Archigrafix_Norge — Thu, 09 May 2019 07:38:04 GMT

[ObsoleteAttribute("This property is deprecated in Revit 2019 and will be removed in the next version of Revit. We suggest you use 'Element.Name' property instead")]

Re: Revit 2020 API: ViewName Property Missing

techXMKH9 — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 13:22:58 GMT

Just in case anybody is stuck with Autodesk.Revit.Exceptions.ArgumentException:
// Thrown when the element requires a unique name and a non-unique name is set.

View name should not contain curly bracket i.e "{}".

Re: Revit 2020 API: ViewName Property Missing

joshua.lumley — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 03:17:06 GMT

Here is the solution: search for all instance of ".ViewName" and replace with ".Name".
Problem solved.