topic Workshared Element User History in Revit API Forum

Workshared Element User History

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 20:24:46 GMT

Hello friends,

If I turn on one of the worksharing display modes, and then hover my mouse over any element, I get a popup advising me of who that element was originally created by and who last updated it on the central model, as shown below:

I've searched through the api help file, and online, but cannot find any description of where this information is stored or if it is even accessible through the API. Does anyone know how I might be able to programatically access these feilds?

Re: Workshared Element User History

jeremytammik — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 09:11:24 GMT

In general, I do not believe you will ever be able to see anything whatsoever in Dynamo that is not API accessible.

Furthermore, you can look at the Dynamo source code to determine how the data is retrieved, and where from.

I have not looked myself, and I am not sure whether this is the right path, but here goes:

Each Revit element belongs to one and only one workset.

Its workset can be determined by the Element.WorksetId property.

The workset is derived from WorksetPreview, which offers the Owner property.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Jeremy

Re: Workshared Element User History

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 17:28:03 GMT

Thanks for the reply Jeremy, but I'm a bit confused, as I'm not using Dynamo. If it has some functionality that can retrieve this data for me, then I'm not opposed to using it, but I'd prefer to stick to coded API.

As for WorksetPreview, it appears this will give me the owner of the entire workset (if it has been checked out), but what I'm looking for is the history that Revit appears to store somewhere of which user last updated a specific element with a synchronization to the central model.

Re: Workshared Element User History

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 18:52:42 GMT

Anybody have any ideas? I'm starting to think the API just doesn't provide access to this, but if it does it could be very useful for tracking work and delegating tasks in our firm!

Re: Workshared Element User History

jeremytammik — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 21:18:47 GMT

I'm asking the development team...

Re: Workshared Element User History

jeremytammik — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 20:02:50 GMT

I received an answer, and the access is there:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2015/11/worksharingutils.html

Hooray!

Please let us know how it works out for you, preferably with a snippet of sample code.

Thank you!

Cheers,

Jeremy

Re: Workshared Element User History

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:04:12 GMT

Fantastic! Thanks so much Jeremy!

I'm working hard on a project deadline on the Architecture side of things right now, but will dive into this after the weekend. I'll be sure and post back with a code example!