Keep group name after ungrouping

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Hello Dyn community,

I want to set a parameter within a group, I succeded by ungrouping, doing the changes within the group and after grouping these elements again.
But I can not give the right name to the group and maybe is cause I am not using the Passthrough node from Clockworks correctly. Any Ideas?
Fassade Numerierung.dyn (23.4 KB)

Thanks in advance

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Hi @igpema

Could you also drop your rvt file here.

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Here is a simplified workflow using an Excel file to retain group names that could work as a basic example:

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(the warning is only due to elements not having a parameter to set)

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Thanks for the replies,

I sorted out the problem of empty lists by using a second Passthrough. Before ungrouping i needed to obtain the group members and then ungroup.
Although the problem is the same, the new groups dont take the name they should, i tried out with export in excel as Yna_Db propposed, but the problem is still there. I think the problem is that the Python skript of the node doesnt work out properly with my list structure. I think the node Group.FromElements is prepare to create only one group but not serveral groups with several names, at least that is my opinion after looking at the code… although I am not good at python…

As a second option that I am going to try is to do a second dyn. file and rename the groups with the excel list system from Yna_Db.

Attacht is also the dyn and the revit file.

thanks in advance

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The Python script from Group.fromElements:

doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument
items = UnwrapElement(IN[0])
ids = list()
rejects = list()
for item in items:
—try:
------ids.append(item.Id)
—except:
------rejects.append(item)
items = List[ElementId] (ids)

TransactionManager.Instance.EnsureInTransaction(doc)
try:
—group = doc.Create.NewGroup(items);
—group.GroupType.Name = IN[1]
except:
—group = list()
TransactionManager.Instance.TransactionTaskDone()

OUT = (group,rejects)

Fassade Numerierung_02.dyn (24.7 KB)
Test_Ign_05.rvt (1.2 MB)

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I am not totally sure the Excel workflow example would work as such to maintain identical group names, I noticed afterwards that the groups numbers were incremented. I did not have time yet to experiment further but I thought of using wether a BakeElements node from Rhythm or trying not only to delete groups by ungrouping them but also to delete associated group types. I will be interested in your results anyway…

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well,
I just did a second dyn.file and like that work out. It is for sure not the best solution but at least I can go on :wink:

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Fassade Numerierung_04.dyn (12.0 KB)

And the Python file:

doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument
names = IN[0]
groups = UnwrapElement(IN[1])

TransactionManager.Instance.EnsureInTransaction(doc)

for name,group in zip(names,groups):
—try:
------group.GroupType.Name = name
—except:
------group = list()

TransactionManager.Instance.TransactionTaskDone()

OUT = (groups,names)

By the way, how should I paste python files hier in Dynamobim?

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how should I paste python files hier in Dynamobim?

See this post:

I think this workflow in its current state does not ensure that the right name goes to the right group…

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hello again,

the problem was the Python file from the node Group.FromElements. Now it is workig.

Fassade Numerierung_03.dyn (22.6 KB)

doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument
elements = UnwrapElement(IN[0])
gNames = IN[1]

items = []
ids = []
rejects = list()
group = []

TransactionManager.Instance.EnsureInTransaction(doc)

for element,gName in zip(elements,gNames):
	for ele in element:
		try:
			ids.append(ele.Id)
		except:
			rejects.append(element)
	items = List[ElementId](ids)
	try:
		group = doc.Create.NewGroup(items);
		group.GroupType.Name = gName
	except:
		group = list()
		
TransactionManager.Instance.TransactionTaskDone()

OUT = elements
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There is additional information on this topic in this thread for anyone interested:

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