Get active view of file open in background

[Anonymous]

Hey guys,

I'm trying to get the Starting View of a Revit file that I have just opened in the background by doing this:

Document currentDoc = app.OpenDocumentFile(ModelPath, OpeningOptions);

// Get opening view
Autodesk.Revit.DB.View openingView = currentDoc.ActiveView;

// Get opening view's name
string openingViewName = openingView.ViewName;

But everytime I get a NullReferenceException because the openingView object is null, which means that I cannot get the .ActiveView property of my currentDoc.

Is it because the currentDoc is opened in the background and not Active?

Is there a way to get the active view of a doc open in the background?
Or really, is there a way to get the Starting View of a document?

I searched the APIs everywhere but couldn't find anything.

Thanks!

Andrea

[Anonymous]

No one?

I thought this one would have been an easy one 🙂

[jeremytammik · Accepted solution]

Dear Andrea,

Thank you for your query.

The Building Coder answered it for you, in 2017:

https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2017/08/forge-installed-version-move-group-filter-by-name....

I hope this helps.

Since your email is registered as an ADN member, this thread was already automatically escalated to an ADN case 15419502 [Get active view of file open in background].

In addition, you manually escalated it to create a duplicate ADN case 15423509 [Get active view of file open in background].

There is no need for that, since, as said, it just creates a duplicate case.

I hope this clarifies, and am closing both ADN cases now.

If we need to discuss anything further, we can happily do so right here in this thread.

Best regards,

Jeremy

[Anonymous]

Yeah that's exactly what I needed! Weird I didn't initially find it! Thanks a lot for the suggestion!!

Sorry about the duplication. I didn't know about the ADN thing. This won't happen again 😉