Is there a way to prompt a user for a string value when running a Dynamo Graph. I found something for prompting for a point, but not a string. Example: Replacing the string with a prompt in my Hello World on DynamoThoughts. Maybe in design script or python? Any thoughts?

Check this out: [image] Multi User Input Form with Dynamo One of the main issues when trying to implement Dynamo into your office workflows is the user interface. Don’t get me wrong, I love it. But not everybody does. So, I have been seeking ways to… Also a t…

This may be just what I am looking for. Let me give that a try.

Hi @bdebevc , this works great. just keep in mind that the pop-up window of the UI sometimes is set behind the Revit window. I’m using this standard in all my scripts now. Kind regards Mike

@bdebevc @Mike_Wellink I have something similar that’s part of a bigger project, but thought it could be helpful to package it. Just published it to the package manager as DynamoFormInput There is simple text input and a Dropdown input, which is helpful for selecting an option out of a set. It’s…

HI @Mike_Wellink , If you update the package to version 2016.11.15 you won’t have the issue of the form staying on the background. It has been changed to stay on the forefront. Also, it now accepts more input types (all sorts of revit selection and drop down lists). I posted an article about this u…

NICE!!! Thanks for the update @Mostafa_El_Ayoubi . I’m going to update the package right now! :+1::+1::+1::+1::+1::+1:

@Mostafa_El_Ayoubi As a side note: I hope sometime along the line of Dynamo development they (Autodesk) will implement an Package auto-update function. I have your package installed and want Dynamo to keep track of all updates since I installed your Package. So I allways have the latest installed.…

Wow, this is a fabulous little node. I am an old Autolisp programmer and getting user input was really easy and with Dynamo not so much. Especially when you want to pause in the middle of a routine to ask for further input. So this was nice to have and should really be a built in node.Thanks a ton ! …

[image] Ren_Rainville: Check this out: Multi User Input Form with Dynamo – data|shapes Also a thread here: Is there a user interface? Any suggestions on how I can combine this with writing a new excel-file and letting the user ‘choose’ the file name and location? I’m still pretty new at th…

@Laura_BIMChick typically with a thread this old your question should be a new thread linking to this one for reference. Also including any attempt on your end shows effort and will encourage others to assist. If you haven’t, please review this thread: https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-get-help…

Prompt user for a string

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Ren_Rainville November 23, 2016, 11:03pm 2

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Prompt user for a string

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