topic Re: close open views in Revit API Forum

close open views

russ.green — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:33:36 GMT

How can I use the API to close open views except the active view?

I can't see how to close a view....

Re: close open views

russ.green — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:00:41 GMT

or at least just check if a view is open and not active....

Re: close open views

ollikat — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:16:19 GMT

Not tried or checked in any way the following.

You could check what happens if you delete the view from the project with Document.Delete() method, because view also derives from Element.

Re: close open views

russ.green — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:40:01 GMT

you can;t delete an open view. never mind!

Re: close open views

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 15:50:13 GMT

var pCurrView = pDoc.ActiveView;
pUIDoc.RequestViewChange(pCurrView);                        
var lViews = pUIDoc.GetOpenUIViews();                        
foreach (var pView in lViews)                        
{
    if (pView.ViewId != pCurrView.Id)
        pView.Close();
}

Where pDoc is your Document and pUIDoc is you UIDocument. Keep in mind, you can access your Document via the UIDocument

Re: close open views

Andekan — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 10:42:22 GMT

UIDocument.GetOpenUIViews Method Gets a list of all open view windows in the Revit user interface, not only the ones in UIDocument so it may return views from other documents and it may happen that some of them have the same id as the one you want to close so you may end closing mopre than one view