Activate Newly Created Document

[vitalij.marcukov2BP2F]

I am trying to create a pushbutton which activates NewProjectDocument(template_file) method which creates Revit project with company's template which is stored in central location. The problem is, as far as I understand, that new project is in memory and I cannot see it in Revit UI. Does anyone know how to activate it? I saw someone offered a solution with ShowElements(), but it does not work for me. 

[naveen.kumar.t]

Hi @vitalij.marcukov2BP2F ,

If ShowElements() is not working for you, could you please try the following suggestion?

• Create the document from the template.
• Save it temporarily.
• Close the in-memory version.
• Re-open it using UIApplication.OpenAndActivateDocument().
  
  We already have an API wishlist item (REVIT-183179) submitted to the engineering team, requesting a new API to activate a document using a DB document
  
  

[vitalij.marcukov2BP2F]

@naveen.kumar.t , thank you for the reply. 

The idea was to create a document from template without saving (to avoid all those cleanups), enable worksharing, create company's worksets and all with a click of a button.  And let user save manually save to cloud.

When I use ShowElements(x), 2 things happen: a message appears "there is no open view that shows any of the highlighted elements.." which I don't know how to hide for Revit users not to see it in the first place and also the worksets toolbar is not shown which might confuse Revit users. 

For now, as per your suggestion, I'll try to save it temporarily so to say.