Colouring equipment in Revit

Revit
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I’m using Dynamo to create a list of equipment that is in excel but not in Revit, and in Revit but not excel. I’m wondering if there’s a way to colour in the equipment in Revit, so it’s easier to visualize what hasn’t been done. At the moment I’m outputting a list of equipment that is yet to be named in Revit, however this list is just a string.

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In the picture below, is there a way to get all items at indexes with an empty string, and then somehow colour these pieces of equipment?

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So I’d want to get item at index 7, and then colour in equipment with ID of 1167203

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Sure. Find the index of the item in the list and use Get Item at Index. Or find a way to get a list of true/false (IsEmpty should work) and use Filter by BoolMask.

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@Greg_McDowell the “IsEmpty” only returns if the whole list is empty, and I don’t want to manually type in index 7 for “GetItemAtIndex”. Even if I could check for a specific index if it’s empty, it still contains {} in the string

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You can have it look at the next level down. Click the “>” next to the input and choose @2 - should be enough.

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@Greg_McDowell didn’t know about that trick. However at index 7 it still contains {}, so it’s not empty. And if I convert it all to a string and remove {} from it, then it gets rid of the indexes

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Okay - It’s a string. How about looking to see if the string equals “”? Several ways to approach this.

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@Greg_McDowell yeah just put in == and a string block of nothing. But I’m still not sure how to get all elements at index with a value of true, and then apply the colour to them

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Something like this;

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Instead of feeding the BoolMask filter with a list of strings, feed it the list of Revit elements and do what you need from there.