"Generic Model Tags" category - "ElementQueries.OfCategory operation failed" internal error

Took me sometime to get back to this problem. After quick search found out that this bug exists in the Dynamo itself, as per the post here, where it explained clearly:

So to solve my problem I quickly modified the code from @Dimitar_Venkov to collect all the elements of category and not from the specific view. Here the below the code which worked for me:

import clr

clr.AddReference("RevitServices")
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager
doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument

clr.AddReference("RevitAPI")
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import FilteredElementCollector

clr.AddReference("RevitNodes")
import Revit
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.Elements)

def tolist(obj1):
	if hasattr(obj1,"__iter__"): return obj1
	else: return [obj1]

cat = UnwrapElement(IN[0])
OUT = []

ueWrapper = None
wrappers = clr.GetClrType(Revit.Elements.ElementWrapper).GetMethods()
for w in wrappers:
	if w.ToString().startswith("Revit.Elements.UnknownElement"):
		ueWrapper = w
		break

if ueWrapper is not None:
	fec = FilteredElementCollector(doc).WhereElementIsNotElementType()
	if cat is not None:
		fec = fec.OfCategoryId(cat.Id)
	view_el = []
	for e in fec:
		view_el.append(ueWrapper.Invoke(None, (e, True) ) )
	OUT.append(view_el)

I am using Revit 2018.3 and Dynamo 1.3.3.4111. Thank you.

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