Creating view filters for some parameters is impossible

[m.vallee]

Hi,

I want to create view filters for walls depending on some criteria like :

• their phase (BuiltInParameter.PHASE_CREATED)
• their location line (BuiltInParameter.WALL_KEY_REF_PARAM)
• the level their are attached to

All these parameters are not available in the UI when a user wants to create a new rule-based filter.

Could you please confirm to me it is not possible through the API ? When I try, it fails saying: “One of the given rules refers to a parameter that does not apply to this filter’s categories.

Parameter name: rules”

Why are some parameters available/not available for view filtering ?

Do you think I could use selection-based filters instead, as it is possible with the UI ?

Thanks for your help.

[m.vallee]

The issue is it seems impossible to make view filters using instance parameters. You can just use type parameters...

Is anyone else facing this ?

[JimJia]

Dear Maxime Vallée,

You can use Revit API ParameterFilterElement.AllRuleParametersApplicable(Document, ICollection<ElementId>, IList<FilterRule>) or ParameterFilterElement.AllRuleParametersApplicable(IList<FilterRule>) to check if parameter is applicable for element filter. However, the parameter application of Revit API will be same with Revit UI.

Regarding why your mentioned parameters are not supported, we already create Revit issue CF-4592 to track your request.

Thanks for your understand and support.

[JimJia]

Dear Maxime Vallée,

No, the view filter can use instance parameters definitely; the problem you're facing is some special parameters are not supported; we already create Revit issue CF-4592 to track this.

[m.vallee]

Hi Jim,

Thank you for your answer.

Please keep me informed when Revit issue CF-4592 is solved.

Best regards.

Maxime

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[ssw9UZNL]

Hello,

Has this been resoloved.

I have made some shared parameters for a family within my project (as instance based) and I can not seem to use this to make a filter within dynamo- I am getting the same error message coming back.

Sam

[iuliia.shchuklina]

Hi everybody

Is it resolved?

[jeremy_tammik]

Thank you for your updates and patience with this.

I am sorry to say that it has not yet been addressed by the development team.

I added a note to the development ticket CF-4592 [Creating view filters for some parameters is impossible -- 11852081] to make the development team aware of its importance for you and raise its priority.

You can add further emphasis to this effort by submitting a business case for it:

This issue is important to me. What can I do to help?

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• Impact on your application and/or your development.
• The number of users affected.
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• The potential revenue impact to Autodesk.
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Jeremy

[filip.kabelis]

so anything new?

[jeremy_tammik]

I asked for an update on CF-4592 for you.

[betEDURD]

Hi,

We have a similar issue here, when creating a filter for OST_ElectricalFixtures and OST_GenericModel works just fine, but it does not for OST_StructuralFoundation and OST_StructuralFraming.

We have a lot of different projects that need to have such filters.

Though it does not take up a huge amount of time to do it by hand, we cannot integrate it in our automation add-ins.

We have around 20 persons impacted by this.

That is all the information I can give you, sorry if it is a bit light.

Best regards,

Quentin

[steven.williams.as]

I came across this issue today and would also like a solution. My use case is filtering by Fabrication Part Service Abbreviation (BuiltInParameter.FABRICATION_SERVICE_ABBREVIATION). This parameter is not available for MEP Fabrication Parts category, but both BuiltInParameter.FABRICATION_SERVICE_PARAM and BuiltInParameter.FABRICATION_SERVICE_NAME are. This is odd. It is also frustrating, because only BuiltInParameter.FABRICATION_SERVICE_ABBREVIATION is available for IndependentTag families. So I can tag pipes with their service abbreviation (and not their service name), but I cannot make a view filter and color those pipes in Visibility/Graphics Overrides by their service abbreviation.