# Place door type in legend

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/place-door-type-in-legend/29230>\
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**Created:** [December 3, 2018, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/place-door-type-in-legend/29230 "2018-12-03T22:32:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![vanman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/vanman/32/20881_2.png) [@vanman](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/vanman)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/place-door-type-in-legend/29230/1 "2018-12-03T22:32:13Z")

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Hi,

Can you use dynamo to place door types in a legend?

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**Author:** ![SeanP](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/seanp/32/42560_2.png) [@SeanP](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/SeanP)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 12:41am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/place-door-type-in-legend/29230/2 "2018-12-04T00:41:43Z")

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Doesn’t sound like it’s directly possible…

> [@Placing Legend component in Legends](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/placing-legend-component-in-legends/7445/2):
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> Hi @Younghwi_Kim, I’m not sure this is possible (I haven’t done much testing) but I came across this thread… [http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/creating-a-legend-programmatically/td-p/4901598](http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/creating-a-legend-programmatically/td-p/4901598) Cheers, Dan

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**Author:** ![jacob.small](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/jacob.small/32/161030_2.png) [@jacob.small](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/jacob.small)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 3:43am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/place-door-type-in-legend/29230/3 "2018-12-04T03:43:42Z")

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Correct. This code may help, but you’ll be stepping well into the API here (group and copy in the group and modify the type and ungroup and purge the old one and… wow that’s a hefty work around)

> **[Duplicate Legend Component](https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2010/05/duplicate-legend-component.html)**
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> A number of Revit elements can still not be created programmatically, because the API does not provide the appropriate creation methods for them. Joe Ye just handled a case asking how to create a new legend component, and Harry Mattison suggested an...

I recommend putting a vote to this:

> **[API for creating Legend views and Legend components](https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/api-for-creating-legend-views-and-legend-components/idi-p/8352835)**
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> Requesting API support for creating Legend views and Legend Components.

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**Author:** ![Yong-sung.choi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/yong-sung.choi/32/61856_2.png) [@Yong-sung.choi](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Yong-sung.choi)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 8:18am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/place-door-type-in-legend/29230/4 "2018-12-04T08:18:40Z")

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is it right?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/5ZiBumc_8qQ?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PLodtUZZM3eLMMDgU-ogiRx6xfBRmJELT9&start=0

[A2.창호 일람표 만들기.dyn](https://forum.dynamobim.com/uploads/short-url/8DW2d1y8SLRLDtGkilqiTTbxWXb.dyn) (96.2 KB)