topic Re: change phase of a view in Revit API Forum

change phase of a view

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 10:10:30 GMT

Is it possible to change the phase of a view? Something like view.phase ? I've tried with the created pohase but it doesn't work..

Thank for your help !

Re: change phase of a view

jeremytammik — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 07:52:38 GMT

Does this old post help?

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2009/03/create-room-on-level-in-phase.html

Please look specifically at the reply to most recent comment by Jared:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2009/03/create-room-on-level-in-phase.html#comment-6a00e553e16897883301a511f1f07a970c

Cheers,

Jeremy

Re: change phase of a view

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 07:11:05 GMT

Hi Jeremy

I've tried what you explain on the blog but I don't know why it doesn't work..

  View active = commandData.Application.ActiveUIDocument.ActiveGraphicalView;
foreach (Phase ii in phase)
{
Parameter p = active.get_Parameter(BuiltInParameter.VIEW_PHASE);
                            ElementId iiId = ii.Id;
                            p.SetValueString(iiId);
}

Thank for your help !

Re: change phase of a view

jeremytammik — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:12:28 GMT

Dear Sabatierae,

How is your variable 'phase' defined?

Have you checked what storage type the built-in parameter VIEW_PHASE is expecting?

You can use RevitLookup to explore it.

Whatever storage type it it expecting, I am pretty sure that you cannot set it using SetValueString.

I would expect the storage type to be ElementId, in which case you need to set it using the element id directly, e.g. like this:

p.Set(iiId);

I hope this helps.

Best regards,

Jeremy

Re: change phase of a view

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:27:23 GMT

Yeah it works !!

phase is defined : PhaseArray phase = doc.Phases;

Here is the code :

ElementId iiId = ii.Id;
Parameter p = active.get_Parameter(BuiltInParameter.VIEW_PHASE);
p.Set(iiId);

with :

ii a Phase

active a view

Thank a lot!

Re: change phase of a view

jeremytammik — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:56:09 GMT

Dear Sabatierae,

Thank you for the confirmation!

I went ahead and promoted this to a proper blog post on its own to ensure it is easily found by others as well:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2014/08/setting-the-phase-of-a-view.html

Best regards,

Jeremy