# How to document Swing Direction from doors in Linked Files **URL:** \ **Category:** Revit\ **Tags:** revit, archi-lab, dynamo\ **Created:** [October 1, 2024, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-document-swing-direction-from-doors-in-linked-files/104812 "2024-10-01T23:02:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![isabela.romanetto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@isabela.romanetto](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/isabela.romanetto)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-document-swing-direction-from-doors-in-linked-files/104812/1 "2024-10-01T23:02:43Z")
Hi everyone! Hope y’all doing well. In my office, we work with large residential buildings, so we are used to link every appartment unit since they repeat a lot on same levels. My problem is that I need to document in a schedule the Swing Direction (Door handings) from all doors, but all of them are linked. Is there a way of doing that using Dynamo? I’ve tried combining the packages BimMorphNodes (to get the elements in links) and [archi-lab](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2022-dynamo-2-10-package-not-showing-up-and-icons-missing/62933/7?) (to define the door swing), but apparently the “Door Set Handing” node doesn’t work for linked elements. I’m new to Dynamo and I really need to solve this, can you help me out? I’ve also tried to look online for another node that’s similar to the “Door Set Handing” but reads linked elements and I couldn’t find it in google or chatGPT. Hope u help me! PS: I don’t know how to write a python script yet, so I prefer node-related solutions, but I’m up for anything that solves my problem! ---
**Author:** ![sovitek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/sovitek/32/116237_2.png) [@sovitek](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/sovitek)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 12:36am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-document-swing-direction-from-doors-in-linked-files/104812/2 "2024-10-02T00:36:44Z")
Hi @isabela.romanetto you could try get handorientation, clockwork and archilab have nodes for that and should work on link…probably it could work ![Revit_PLrTnBc60X](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/b/4/b41afa7ffdaf66777aee402e128f331f8edc625a.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Nick\_Boyts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/nick_boyts/32/76313_2.png) [@Nick\_Boyts](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Nick_Boyts)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-document-swing-direction-from-doors-in-linked-files/104812/3 "2024-10-02T14:55:18Z")
You _can_ schedule linked elements. You _cannot_ modify them. If the linked elements don’t already have some value representing swing direction that you can schedule, then you won’t be able to do anything about it (in Revit). You can certainly use Dynamo to determine the swing direction, but you can’t write it back to a linked element. The workaround would be to get all the information and write it to Excel. ---
**Author:** ![isabela.romanetto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@isabela.romanetto](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/isabela.romanetto)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-document-swing-direction-from-doors-in-linked-files/104812/4 "2024-10-02T17:11:35Z")
Yes Nick, that’s what I’ll do! Write it all in Excel. ---
**Author:** ![isabela.romanetto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@isabela.romanetto](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/isabela.romanetto)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-document-swing-direction-from-doors-in-linked-files/104812/5 "2024-10-02T17:45:10Z")
Thank you @sovitek for your response! I figured I had a problem with list levels, and the [archi-lab](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/revit-2022-dynamo-2-10-package-not-showing-up-and-icons-missing/62933/7?) node worked with links after all. But I appreciate your time and alternative do solve it. 🙂