Dear Fellow Dynamaniacs, Here is what I would like to accomplish: Create a list of all views in the project that have orphaned tags in them (tags that lose their association to an element and display “?” instead of the intended value) so that we can go through and fix them. I’ve started with materi…

@Mark.Ackerley great analysis. I didn’t realize that Material Tags don’t have the Text property. In that case I agree with you that we have to get a little bit more creative. How about a geometric approach to the problem? Each Tag has a property called BoundingBox and if it has text in the Tag, the …

This will give you inconsistent results with material tags as the Tag.TagText node appears to read values from the element not the material of the element which the tag points. A possible workaround would be to look into using the “is orphaned” property which can be read about here: IsOr…

Thanks for the help @jacob.small ! I will have to dig deeper.

@rlosh you may want to watch this conversation as well: [image] Selecting Tags Associated to a Linked Model Revit Never seen this issue before, and apologies if it’s been covered but a search didn’t turn up anything. I’m unable to select tags via any method which are hos…

Just in case you haven’t found an answer… Use the “Try Get Property Value” node from Wombat to filter unorphaned elements. [image] Good luck!

Hi @ChrisRob , This is a great tip, unfortunately it only works with Rooms and Spaces, as the issue which @jacob.small mentions still appears to be current… Ie. every other kind of tag which is referencing a linked file will not be returned in the ‘all elements of category’. Thanks again. Mark

Thanks for the suggestion @ChrisRob Unfortunately, even when the tag displays a question mark, IsOrphaned is still set to “false”. I used Revit Lookup to confirm this. (See snippet below.) [image]

@rlosh yes, you are correct that the IsOrphaned property is showing false. I think this is specific to only elements from a linked model so that when you tag something from a link, and that element in a link was deleted it would change this property to true. This is speculation at this point as I ha…

@Konrad_K_Sobon Thanks for the reply. Also, (as shown on the screenshot) the TagText property is empty. Will it still evaluate correctly? Thanks again!

Well the solution that I have posted would not work for TagText property being empty. You would have to add another check. Something along the lines of: if tag text is ??? or “” then consider this tag orphaned. Please post a sample file (minimal sample if possible) so that I can re-create. Revit 20…

@Konrad_K_Sobon Please see attached file. Orphan Rescue.dyn (15.4 KB) For some reason I can’t get the RVT to upload. I just used the OOTB Architectural template, put in a basic exterior wall, and tagged the wall materials in a section view using the OOTB material tag. Thanks!

How to identify orphaned tags?

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jacob.small October 31, 2017, 5:35pm 4

@rlosh you may want to watch this conversation as well:

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How to identify orphaned tags?

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