Shared parameters name change

[luisa_paiva]

Hello! Can someone help me? I have a shared parameters file in my Revit project where I renamed some parameters using DiRoots’ ParaManager. However, those parameters already existed in the project.

How can I update the name of the shared parameter in the project?

Thanks!

[RDAOU]

@luisa_paiva 

The ones already loaded, if shared, inherit their name from the .txt they were loaded from. You can’t change it unless you reload the so from a different source. Some of these could be from families and won’t even be accessible directly in the model.

Moreover, work shared models could contain shared parameters from multiple sources, you should not think how to change the name of these but instead consider a unique naming convention for yours to avoid such conflict.

[luisa_paiva]

Thanks. I’ve been working on a naming convention for my shared parameters. Since I now have a system I want to follow, I’d like to rename the parameters I’ve already used in my template and families, so I don’t have to redo everything from scratch.

I saw there was a plugin called RVT, however, I was wondering if there’s a way to do that without using the plugin.

[RDAOU · Accepted solution]

@luisa_paiva 

No  I do not believe there is.

Doing it programmatically (plug-in or dynamo) is not renaming. It is practically replacing the previously loaded shared parameter with a new one, copying its values if any then purging the old ones out. 

you can do that manually and one parameter at a time buy if the models and families you wish to implement this change in are many, I’m not sure the manual route is suitable approach.