Opening multiple Views

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Hello,
I’m sharing a workaround for opening several Views with Revit API and Winform.
The Python script (IronPython) must be placed at the end of the chain and accepts a list of views as input.

an example with a duplication of views

more explanations here

#written by Cyril P
import clr
clr.AddReference('RevitAPI')
import Autodesk
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import *
import Autodesk.Revit.DB as DB

clr.AddReference('RevitNodes')
import Revit
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.GeometryConversion)
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.Elements)

clr.AddReference('RevitServices')
import RevitServices
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager

doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument
uiapp = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentUIApplication
uidoc = uiapp.ActiveUIDocument

clr.AddReference('System.Drawing')
clr.AddReference('System.Windows.Forms')
import System.Drawing
import System.Windows.Forms

from System.Drawing import *
from System.Windows.Forms import *

class MainForm(Form):
	def __init__(self, listView, uidoc):
		self._dictView = {x.Name : x for x in listView}
		self._uidoc = uidoc
		self.InitializeComponent()
		self.CheckPreselect()
	
	def InitializeComponent(self):
		self._checkedListBox1 = System.Windows.Forms.CheckedListBox()
		self._buttonOpen = System.Windows.Forms.Button()
		self.SuspendLayout()
		# 
		# checkedListBox1
		self._checkedListBox1.FormattingEnabled = True
		self._checkedListBox1.Items.AddRange(System.Array[System.Object](self._dictView.keys()))
		self._checkedListBox1.Location = System.Drawing.Point(24, 27)
		self._checkedListBox1.Name = "checkedListBox1"
		self._checkedListBox1.Size = System.Drawing.Size(340, 440)
		self._checkedListBox1.TabIndex = 0
		# 
		# buttonOpen
		self._buttonOpen.Location = System.Drawing.Point(24, 480)
		self._buttonOpen.Name = "buttonOpen"
		self._buttonOpen.Size = System.Drawing.Size(234, 53)
		self._buttonOpen.TabIndex = 1
		self._buttonOpen.Text = "Opens Select Views"
		self._buttonOpen.UseVisualStyleBackColor = True
		self._buttonOpen.Click += self.ButtonOpenClick
		# 
		# MainForm
		self.ClientSize = System.Drawing.Size(400, 550)
		self.Controls.Add(self._buttonOpen)
		self.Controls.Add(self._checkedListBox1)
		self.Name = "MainForm"
		self.Text = "UI_OpenMulti"
		self.ResumeLayout(False)

	def CheckPreselect(self):
		for i in range(self._checkedListBox1.Items.Count):
			self._checkedListBox1.SetItemChecked(i, True)
	
	def ButtonOpenClick(self, sender, e):
		for viewName in self._checkedListBox1.CheckedItems :
			view = self._dictView.get(viewName)
			self._uidoc.ActiveView = view
		self.Close()		
	
lstView = UnwrapElement(IN[0])	
objForm = MainForm(lstView, uidoc)
objForm.Show()

OUT = 0
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Hello @c.poupin
thank you very much, amazing python node and great work !
Cheers

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This python node works very well with any list of views it seems.The only issue I found was that it was displaying an unorganized list to select from. In the use case above this would not mater as much since these are duplicates. In my situation I needed them organized so I can track my place better.

If you would like to have the list organized by dictionary key add this after the comment on line 41.

self.dictkeys = []
for i in sorted (self._dictView.keys()) :
		self.dictkeys.append(i)
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