Setting the 'Label' parameter of TextElements via API

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to set the Label Parameter of TextElements via API in the same way like users do via GUI. Is there a way to set the parameter relationship to an elements parameter that receive the value and the TextElement that show the value in plans?

[jeremy_tammik]

You could submit a wish for this functionality to the Revit Idea Station.

Whenever you require a new or enhanced Revit product or Revit API functionality, the Revit Idea Station is the place to go.

Please search there for a corresponding wish list entry for the suggested functionality and add your comments to it, or create a new one, if none already exists:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/idb-p/302

Tag it as an API wish:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/idb-p/302/tab/most-recent/label-name/api

Ensuring that a wish gets as many votes as possible helps underline its importance to you and the rest of the developer community.

The Revit Idea Station is currently one of the main driving input forces for Revit API enhancements.

The Revit development team looks there. Your comment here in the discussion forum might be overlooked.

Thank you!

[brownbr2VHQE]

I have went and voted for this idea, but wanted to add to this thread my adhoc solution.

One work around I did on reading which parameters were being used.
On the topic of parameter maintenance, I wanted to gather information about which parameters were being actively used in tags.

So I used tag.TagText and then compared that value to the values of the parameters returned from taggedElement.Parameters to deduce which parameters were driving the TagText. Obviously this becomes exponentially more complicated with concatenated parameters and delimiters, but it served my purpose. 

[lionel.kai]

I really love Jeremy's first response:

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@jeremytammik wrote:

I would expect it to be possible to achieve the same result programmatically as you do through the user interface.

cuz I would expect that, too! Unfortunately, that's nowhere near reality.

And eleven years later... still nothing.

FYI, there's another overlapping/duplicate idea here:

List parameters used in a Label (TextElement) within a family document - Autodesk Community

and there are various clunky workarounds, but there's really only so much we can do until Autodesk decides to finish exposing the full Revit API...