Parameters in Revit by dynamo

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What is the best practice and workflow for updating parameters in Revit by dynamo? including adding new parameters (project or shared).

Regards

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That’s an incredibly broad question with dozens of possible answers. It depends on in-house standards, BEP, if it’s project specific or company-wide, if it needs to be accessible to everyone or just a handful of people, and lots of other variables.

I think the best practice is the one that’s easier for everyone involved.

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That is important point, but what i already meant in dynamo scripting, the best approach by dynamo nodes to get Revit parameters then either exporting to excel and updating or updating them inside dynamo environment

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my 2 cents. logging. regardless of how u approach the data i/o. always keep some records about who/when/where/how and etc.

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May not seem like it, but that’s exactly what I meant.

either exporting to excel and updating or updating them inside dynamo environment

This sentence is an example itself. Sometimes you want to export and change the data manually somewhere else, sometimes you only need to relate to the objects’ already existing information and/or update it, sometimes you may even need someone outside your company to do something for you. Those are completely different scripts/workflows, and that’s the beauty of Dynamo, where not even knowing the first thing about code, you can deliver an accessible solution.

Again it all narrows down to those variables I’ve mentioned before.

Eventually you may find yourself in a situation where some alternatives have been tried and there’s a specific one that everyone involved got comfortable with and led to the minimum trouble, if any, during the workflow. Then you have your best approach.

But that’s only my perspective. Cheers :sweat_smile:

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The most accessible thing in my opinion would be to work with your shared parameters txt, obtain those parameters and filter for cleaning or create new ones from that txt.

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Make a script to create and clean shared parameters. I’d like a review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ12ccV2-SU Create parameters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfbhrJ0KKxM Delete parameters

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