Create Plan Views with out Duplicates

[J33C316]

The follow code creates a new plan view based on a level. It gets it's name from the level. Unfortunately if it's run again it creates a duplicate view who's name is the same except it appends a (1). See image. I'd like it not to create the duplicate view. Not sure how or where to loop through the existing view names.

Any suggestions?

                                    ViewPlan newfpview = ViewPlan.Create(doc, vft.Id, level.Id);
                                    newfpview.Name = level.Name;

 

[bhprest]

You can use a FilteredElementCollector to collect the views that interest you. This returns a collection that you can iterate over and test your logic against.

I would think that comparing the names of the views though is error prone. A ViewPlan has a LevelId property which is the ElementId of the level that the plan represents. The operation may prove to be more stable/predictable if you include this in your comparison logic.