Get all text note types

[Kevin.Bell]

Hi,

I'm trying to create a text note to add information to a view. I can easily create the text note, but I can't seem to get a list of all of the 2D annotation Text types within a project.

I've tried:

IList<Element> getTextStyles = new FilteredElementCollector(doc).OfCategory(BuiltInCategory.OST_TextNotes).WhereElementIsElementType().ToElements();

and

IList<Element> getTextStyles = new FilteredElementCollector(doc).OfClass(typeof(TextNote)).WhereElementIsElementType().ToElements();

Both return no results.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!

[RPTHOMAS108 · Accepted solution]

No they don't have a category and the class they belong to is TextNoteType not TextNote.

So I would try ElementClassFilter with TextNoteType.

When you use ElementClassFilter you don't have to also use further filters to get instance or type because API classes are often (if not always) specific to instance or type e.g. TextNote = instance, TextNoteType = type

[Kevin.Bell]

Excellent!, that worked:

IList<Element> getTextStyles = new FilteredElementCollector(doc).OfClass(typeof(TextNoteType)).WhereElementIsElementType().ToElements();

Thanks!

[RPTHOMAS108]

IList<Element> getTextStyles = new FilteredElementCollector(doc).OfClass(typeof(TextNoteType)).WhereElementIsElementType().ToElements();

The above should also work the same.