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Find all sheets with a particular keynote

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 19:39:17 GMT

I have a large project (hundreds of sheets) and I've changed the text of a keynote for an addendum. Now I must go through and bubble that keynote text in the legends on the sheets where it occurs. Is there a way to find all of these sheets (either with macro or through the UI itself) so that I can be sure that I have found them all?

Re: Find all sheets with a particular keynote

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 19:47:56 GMT

Oh . . . And I am on Revit 2014

Re: Find all sheets with a particular keynote

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 01:00:37 GMT

This is definitely possible.

The way I would approach this is to:

1. Find all keynotes in the project

FilteredElementCollector tagColl =
                    new FilteredElementCollector(doc).OfClass(typeof(IndependentTag))
                        .OfCategory(BuiltInCategory.OST_KeynoteTags);

2. Search through those keynotes to find the ones matching the text you want

List<IndependentTag> keynotesMatchingText = (from IndependentTag i in tagColl
                    where (i.get_Parameter(BuiltInParameter.KEYNOTE_TEXT).AsString()
                           == "MyText")
                    select i).ToList();

3. Get the views that own these keynotes

List<ElementId> viewIdsContainingKeynotes = (from keynote in keynotesMatchingText select keynote.OwnerViewId).ToList();

Note that this will only get you the views containing the keynotes, and not the sheets that contain the view.

With the keynotes matching your text and the views that contain them known, you should be able to come up with some way to verify that you haven't missed any.

Re: Find all sheets with a particular keynote

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 16:36:50 GMT

Thank you for the very clear examples . . . very usefull.

Re: Find all sheets with a particular keynote

priscillia_champagne — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 15:39:52 GMT

I found another way with the add-in Revit LookUp.. since I don't know how to write a macro.

Snoop current selection 🙂

Re: Find all sheets with a particular keynote

CADiva — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 18:15:57 GMT

Revolution Design's Keynote Manager allows you to find all references of a particular keynote.