Duplicate View with Detailing - category question

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Hi everyone,

I'd like to get a list of all categories of elements that are copied into a new view when duplicating using ViewDuplicateOption.WithDetailing. I thought I could filter the category's CategoryType property for Annotation - but that doesn't seem to correspond to the copied elements. For instance, the 'Detail Items' category (e.g. filled regions) are CategoryType.Model). Any thoughts?

Thanks, Peter

[jeremytammik]

I can only address the first part of the question, because I do not understand the rest:

> I'd like to get a list of all categories of elements that are copied into a new view when duplicating...

How about simply creating a filtered element collector with the new copied view Id, iterating over all the elements returned and creating a set of all their categories?

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Hi Jeremy,

thanks for answering. I need the list of categories before the views are duplicated in order to give the user a choice of which view specific (annotative) elements are copied.

I would have thought that the Category property 'CategoryType' value 'Annotation' corresponds to those of the non-model elements that are copied into a new view when duplicating with detailing, but that is not the case.

regards, Peter