I’m new to Dynamo in Revit. I am trying to get parameters to export to excel and then back into Revit. I currently have everything working up to the last commend. “Element.SetParameterByName” When I click run. I get the error, “Parameters Storage Type Not Number”. And nothing updated in the Revit mo…

@timmyt21 Introduce a String from Object node before connecting to the value port of Element.SetParameterByName

More information, screenshots, etc. would be useful. This is also a good read. [image] How to get help on the Dynamo forums FAQ One of the main goals of the Dynamo community is to help others. One way to do that is by answering your questions. But to get the right answer, …

Here are Dynamo screen shots. I’m trying to get the “hanger number” parameter to get into Excel. Modify the “hanger number” parameter in Excel. Then get that information back into Revit. The error I get on the last node, “Parameters Storage Type Not Number” is the only issue I am having. [image]

I have no idea what happened. But, I ran it a couple more times and it worked. I get a different error now. But, it makes the changes.

Hi Tim, @timmyt21 Could you drop your files here so that we can have closer look at it. Thanks :slight_smile:

I cannot upload files. I get a warning that new users cannot upload files.

@timmyt21 Upload your files in dropbox or google drive and drop the link here.

I think you get the error that ''Parameter Type is not number" which means any of the parameter values that you try to write is number but infact the revit family parameter is expecting text or something else instead of number. You have to check which parameter is that.

I am getting the Same Error. Can someone check and give your suggestions [image]

Parameters Storage Type Not Number

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john_pierson September 14, 2016, 6:19pm 2

More information, screenshots, etc. would be useful. This is also a good read.

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