topic Re: Change Revit User Name in Revit API Forum

Change Revit User Name

Moustafa_K — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 20:25:06 GMT

Is there an access to change the username of the document via API?

Re: Change Revit User Name

Dale.Bartlett — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 06:40:42 GMT

My understnding is that this property is read only.

From SDK help:

BasicFileInfo..::..Username Property
BasicFileInfo Class
Returns the username.
Namespace: Autodesk.Revit.DB
C#
public string Username { get; }

Re: Change Revit User Name

Dale.Bartlett — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 07:45:29 GMT

Which leads me to my next question:

How to return the Revit Username?

<code>

BasicFileInfo bfi = new BasicFileInfo();

return bfi.Username;

</code>

Is not correct: "no constructors defined"

Thanks, Dale

Re: Change Revit User Name

Revitalizer — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 07:51:02 GMT

UIApplication.Application.Username

Re: Change Revit User Name

arnostlobel — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:41:21 GMT

Hello Dale,

It looks like the only method to get an instance of BasicFileInfo is static BasicFileInfo.Extract. Please note it does not work with an open document. It takes a path of a file on disk.

I do agree the documentation for the needs BasicFileInfo class to be improved. I have created a task for the responsible development team to update the documentation. Thank you for bringing this problem to our attention.

Re: Change Revit User Name

harrymattison — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 15:50:56 GMT

Hi Autodesk,

Please enable setting the Application.Username property in a future release.

Thanks

Harry