# Document.LoadFamily wont accept an RFA file

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/document-loadfamily-wont-accept-an-rfa-file/83239>\
**Category:** Revit\
**Tags:** python, dynamo\
**Created:** [November 18, 2022, 2:36am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/document-loadfamily-wont-accept-an-rfa-file/83239 "2022-11-18T02:36:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![jedbjorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jedbjorn](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/jedbjorn)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 2:36am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/document-loadfamily-wont-accept-an-rfa-file/83239/1 "2022-11-18T02:36:55Z")

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I need to load my active family into a list of other families that it is nested into. Orchid node Document.loadfamily wont accept a list of RFA files anymore. Any ideas? semi-comfortable with python.

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**Author:** ![Mark.Ackerley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/mark.ackerley/32/79310_2.png) [@Mark.Ackerley](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Mark.Ackerley)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 10:53am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/document-loadfamily-wont-accept-an-rfa-file/83239/2 "2022-11-18T10:53:23Z")

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Hey,

I would raise this as an Issue on the Orchid Github…

> **[Issues · erfajo/OrchidForDynamo](https://github.com/erfajo/OrchidForDynamo/issues)**
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> This repository contains the content of the Orchid package for Dynamo - Issues · erfajo/OrchidForDynamo

Hope that helps,

Mark

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**Author:** ![jedbjorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jedbjorn](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/jedbjorn)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 1:05pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/document-loadfamily-wont-accept-an-rfa-file/83239/3 "2022-11-18T13:05:11Z")

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yup thanks Mark, I already have. Ideally I would like to learn how to do this in python if possible so I can code it myself. I have been working on some code I copied from a tutorial by Ehsan Iran-Nejad eirannejad but it was designed as these nodes, to load families into the active document, and modifying it to load families into a list of background documents is challenging

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**Author:** ![Mark.Ackerley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/mark.ackerley/32/79310_2.png) [@Mark.Ackerley](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Mark.Ackerley)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/document-loadfamily-wont-accept-an-rfa-file/83239/4 "2022-11-18T13:34:34Z")

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That’s cool, maybe post your code and we can look through it? I’ve done similar things…

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**Author:** ![jedbjorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jedbjorn](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/jedbjorn)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/document-loadfamily-wont-accept-an-rfa-file/83239/5 "2022-11-20T15:24:13Z")

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I am going to start a new topic on this since its going to kind of morph into a dev discussion 🙂

its here: [Working on some code to load current (shared) family into a list of background opened family documents](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/working-on-some-code-to-load-current-shared-family-into-a-list-of-background-opened-family-documents/83296)