create schedule of views visible within a plan view

[ram]

I want to create a schedule that will show which views are visible within a Revit 2012-2013 plan view. Does anyone know how to extract this data from the revit model to a schedule or external data file?

[Joe.Ye]

This can be done via Revit API. You can retrieve the list of the views visible in a view via the following code fragment.

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FilteredElementCollector collector = new FilteredElementCollector(doc,doc.ActiveView.Id);
            collector.OfCategory(BuiltInCategory.OST_Viewers);
            
            string elementMessage = null;
            foreach(Element elem in collector)
            {
                if(elem.Category != null)
                    elementMessage += elem.Name + ";; category=" + elem.Category.Name + "\r\n";
            }
            
            TaskDialog.Show("number of elemetn",collector.ToElementIds().Count.ToString() + "\r\n" + elementMessage);

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You can write the list of the view visible int the specified view to external data source, for example, txt file, excel spreadsheet via the non-Revit APIs.

With regard to create a Revit Schedule, I didn't try that for this question. I think it should be possible to create for the visible views in the plan view. Revit 2013 exposed the API to create schedule, you can set filter for the schedule.

[ram]

Thanks

Do have any ideas to add the sheet # and detail # as well as the sheet reference name to this output?

[Joe.Ye]

I am not quite sure I got your idea. Would you please clarifiy it in detail? Thanks.

[ram]

Once you place the view on a sheet to print it, it is given a # (detail number) and it is noted to be placed on that sheet (sheet number). I would like to get these two parameter information along with the view name and/or sheet view name.

[Joe.Ye]

Yes, you can get the sheet number and reference sheet and detail # from the view sheet object's parameter value.  The way to get these parameter value is first get the target parameter object. Then read the parameter value from those target parameter.