topic Re: View Schedule - Heading Alignment in Revit API Forum

View Schedule - Heading Alignment

TheRealChrisHildebran — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:34:05 GMT

I need to align View Schedule Headings to the left but dont see provisions in the Revit API for this.

I see "ScheduleHorizontalAlignment" for aligning data.

I see "ScheduleHeadingOrientation" for orienting the Heading horizontally/vertically.

Am i missing this or is there truly no way of doing this yet?

Re: View Schedule - Heading Alignment

jeremytammik — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 05:41:50 GMT

Dear Chris,

Thank you for your query.

Indeed, the only reference I see to ScheduleHorizontalAlignment is in the ScheduleField.HorizontalAlignment property:

http://www.revitapidocs.com/2018/d204d391-a453-2793-db9e-1e30716edbaf.htm

Have you tried SetStyle.TableCellStyle and a left FontHorizontalAlignment using HorizontalAlignmentStyle.Left?

For safety's sake, I also asked the development team for advice.

I hope this helps.

Best regards,

Jeremy

Re: View Schedule - Heading Alignment

ChrisHildebranAtWork — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 14:11:40 GMT

Jeremy,

Thank you for your time reviewing my question.

After posting my question I did attempt to alter the View Schedule using .SetStyle but had no favorable result.

Snippet

// Didnt seem to alter anything. 
		var style1 = vicMark.GetStyle();
		style1.FontHorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignmentStyle.Left;
		style1.IsFontUnderline         = true;
		vicMark.SetStyle(style1);

Perhaps we will have the ability to control headings in the future.

Thanks again for your time in this matter and other in our community.

Chris

Re: View Schedule - Heading Alignment

rakotoarisoa_m — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 08:58:08 GMT

Hi,

In case if you haven't found it yet try to set the override option of cells.

TableCellStyleOverrideOptions tableStyleOverride = new TableCellStyleOverrideOptions();
tableStyleOverride.HorizontalAlignment = true;
tableStyleOverride.Underline = true;
TableCellStyle style1 = new TableCellStyle();
style1.SetCellStyleOverrideOptions(tableStyleOverride);
		style1.FontHorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignmentStyle.Left;
		style1.IsFontUnderline         = true;
		vicMark.SetStyle(style1);

Re: View Schedule - Heading Alignment

npsteinr — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 15:33:37 GMT

You don't need to input any code! You can just select the text itself and hit Align Left. To select the text click once in the box then hit Align Left. I will add a screen shot.

Re: View Schedule - Heading Alignment

jeroen.vanvlierden — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 15:27:34 GMT

I want to adjust the header and the cell underneath => horizontalalignment to the left

when i use the suggested code snippet i only see it change for the celltext not the header

How do i align the header text to the left?

Re: View Schedule - Heading Alignment

jeremy_tammik — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 12:17:02 GMT

Is it possible in the UI? If not, the API will not help.

Re: View Schedule - Heading Alignment

jeroen.vanvlierden — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 13:26:19 GMT

It is possible in the UI

Re: View Schedule - Heading Alignment

TheRealChrisHildebran — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 14:02:51 GMT

Wow, this was four years ago already.

jeroen.vanvlierden, after attempting Jeremy's suggestions and not getting a favorable result, I gave up on the effort. I see that "rakotoarisoa.m" posted the clip of code I tried with additional lines. I have not tried that, and I'm curious if they had favorable results. I suppose there were, but I can't discern from the message. Is that the code snippet you mentioned that you tried?

Re: View Schedule - Heading Alignment

jeroen.vanvlierden — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:41:28 GMT

Yes, it was. The code I was writing last week had to do with updating a lot of schedules in batch mode, where 1 schedule is the template for the definition of all the others. Everything worked, except for the outlining of the header. The user has done it manually afterwards, because I could not get it to work. All the other properties worked so it was not too much of a problem.

Re: View Schedule - Heading Alignment

TheRealChrisHildebran — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:50:15 GMT

Thank you for the feedback! Perhaps one day there will be parity between what we can do with the Ribbon and what we can do with the API. Good news is that in Revit 2024 we will have dark mode! 😐

How i wish needs could be met before wants.