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Add a method for entering group edit mode. All i want to do is assign a group type name and the user gets flashed with a confusing warning. "A group has been changed outside group edit mode. The change is being allowed because there is only one instance of the type."
Allow API access to group editing mode would be extremely helpful. We are an architecture firm, we use model groups heavily so lots of our work flow depends on it. (We used to work with lots of links but that didn't work well) Whenever there is a automation demand from users, it probably involves model group, and quite often I am hesitant to promise them anything because I know the ungroup-regroup workround is cumbersome and, sometimes, unstable. For us, this is one of the few pain points within Revit API that is really discouraging. I understand that getting API inside group editing mode might not be an easy task for the API team, since other "editing" modes are also missing from Revit API, but still, this is one of the most used functions in the whole software (needn't say an AutoCAD block analogy..), so lots of eager eyes are on it.
About the "unstableness" of ungroup-regroup approach: the model behaves not exactly in the way as when editing a group from within. One example is that some child element on a host could trigger the "ungoup or create new group" dialog during ungroup-regroup, while editing group from UI won't.
We simply need to be able to enter group edit mode, edit elements inside the group, then exit with the option to Finish or Cancel as normal using the api, otherwise large parts of the model and elements that we would otherwise be able to interact with are unavailable to our Addins.
Grouping is incredibly widely used for many valid reasons so simply leaving all elements included in a group beyond the reach of our Addins is unacceptable. We've been discussing and waiting for this basic functionality for over 10 years now, please, just implement it Autodesk.
Oh yes we need this. Have been trying to do something now with multiple linked Revit projects - and it works, but it very timeconsuming to maintain and edit. So groups would be a nice match for us - except we cant run our custom scripts to adjust a few custom parameters, because the elements are within a group. Please allow this. Just like it is currently possible with Assemblies - to edit elements (parameters, placement and so on) outside the Assembly editor.
For anyone looking for a workaround for this warning without using the GroupEditor class (I found this time consuming for my specific case), you can subscribe/unsubscribe to the FailuresProcessing event and just bypass the warning for the user. This seemed to be a quicker and easier workaround for me. You can look at this other Revit discussion post for reference:
