Open a File in background from BIM 360 Docs

Developers
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Hello everyone,
I have a project files with typical family types and I would like to publish them as a library
to do so I am trying to upload all the project files to cloud and open them in the background so that I can extract all types from the selected file and put them on a form for the user to select.
Any ideas on how to open a file from cloud in background.?

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Not sure you can, but this would be an ideal use case for the forge design automation API.

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This seems to be related for Revit 2019+ API.
https://apidocs.co/apps/revit/2020/dcdca59a-635c-a6ca-8378-b1e6bb372101.htm

You would need to figure out how to implement it in Python or ZeroTouch though.

I do agree with @jacob.small here though, these background options are better done as a Revit add-in using some of the other tools available.

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Hi everyone,

sorry for replying back on this post.
I also have the same issue that I need to open a file in background from BIM 360.
@saju_autodesk, just wondering if you got any solution for it. I appreciate if you share.

Thank you.

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Hi Eli, Sorry I have not tried after that point.

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@saju_autodesk Thanks for replying me back.