Can you access saved selections via revit api?

[DanielKP2Z9V]

I don't like how Edit Selction dialog won't let you delete multiple "saved selections" in one go and I wanted to create a custom dialog that would, but can't find a way to access saved selections via revit api - is this possible? Saved selections may be known as "selection filters" perhaps?

Please tell me if it's not possible - I will create a Revit Idea then so devs can ignore it further.

I taunted the deepseek demons to solve it, but to no avail.

[DanielKP2Z9V · Accepted solution]

ok, claude AI has done it: https://0x0.st/8KYO.bin looks like it's called "SelectionFilterElement"

just as I was about to give up...

[jeremy_tammik]

Thank you Daniel for a very nice interesting item and good research. I was previously not aware of the SelectionFilterElement. The sample code in the method documentation is interesting as well. Looking forward to seeing how you are going to use this. Cheers.

[DanielKP2Z9V]

thank you Jeremy, please see demo below (copy) - I believe it's useful because I couldn't delete multiple saved selections in the default revit dialog in one go, which was slowing me down when creating 8-10 temporary saved selections for a particular task that you wanted to dispose of immediately after

[DanielKP2Z9V]

by the way I'm still working on a collection of such helper scripts, hopefully will finish writing documentation soon...