Playing Journal Files

[AGGilliam]

I just recently learned about this functionality and decided to try and test it out to see if I could take advantage of it. I opened Revit, imported some keyboard shortcuts, closed Revit, then copied the journal file to my desktop. To test it, I reset my keyboard shortcuts then opened the journal file with Revit. It seemed to work successfully; Revit opened and closed without any errors. But, when I opened Revit back up, the keyboard shortcuts weren't updated like I expected them to be.

Is this to be expected? I'm not sure if I'm just missing a step or if it just doesn't function that way.

[jeremy_tammik · Accepted solution]

Interesting observation.

Basically, officially, the use of journal files for programming and customisation purposes is not supported.

On the other hand, journal files provide a lot of useful functionality and are used in many ways.

I cannot comment on the keyboard shortcut behaviour you describe.

Here are a couple of possibly outdated explorations described by The Building Coder:

• Journal File Replay
• IFC Import and Conversion Journal Script
• Loading an Add-in With a Journal File