Revit API for Force Relinquish Model In ACC

[Chuong.Ho]

Hi Autodesk,

We need this API to help developers able to update data in models using Revit Design Automation, if not I belive it's is really hard to use Revit Design Automation on cloud.

What I'm expecting :

- One API input the urn model to force Relinquish of all users owner that model, not only my self.

What is current now :

There are APIs available to check the checkout status of elements—for example, WorksharingUtils.GetCheckoutStatus(). However, there are currently no APIs that allow relinquishing ownership of elements not checked out by the current Revit user. The RelinquishOwnership() method only works for elements that are checked out by the current user.

[keyu_chen_A8S84EE8MLBW]

Agree and it seems this is very helpful for automation and next step of more digitalisation objects. 

[Scott_D_]

I'd love to be able to Force Relinquish everything in the model.

Such a hassle saving it over the top of itself to work around issues, breaking backups etc.

[BrookePeterson]

AND - this should not only be related to worksharing and multi user environment.

Single User cloud models should ALSO have an API to force release of user lock on the file.
We have seen many many times where a Revit Crash causes a file to remain locked to a user with no way to remove the user lock even as an account administrator.

[Scott_D_]

I had this when I changed my username.

I found I needed to relinquish elements and couldn't so I tried to change my username back to be able to relinquish them but I got the "username can't be an email address" warning and had to use the nuclear option. Not fun on a 2 year, multi-million pound project.

It would be nice if when you sync it actually does relinquish all the elements you've got booked out because sometimes it does not, for whatever reason.