Properties of a graph - Revit 23

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After learning that there’s a waaaay easier way to add an image to Dynamo than how I’ve been doing it, I was staring at the properties and …
Apologies if I asked this before but I have the memory of a :tropical_fish:

I want to link our company’s help document - but it’s a pdf on our server, not a URL. Is there a way to do that?

What does the Custom Property bit do? How do I use it?

Also, it’s Friday. Whooo :smiley:

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@Alien sounds like we need to better message the Graph Properties out :face_with_peeking_eye: :roll_eyes: :rofl:

The Learn More URL is a string right now, so not even a clickable link… we have work to do here. But, it could be a link to a PDF on your intranet? Worth a test.

The Custom Properties are just that - properties you can customize! In the examples below you’ll see what is done in Dynamo vs. how it shows up in the DYN file:

The Description is near the top of the DYN file (A JSON file formatted file type):

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The Image comes under the Thumbnail key and is a Base64 encoded image… it will be very long. Small snippet below. Note that having an image will significantly increase the size of your DYN file… but we’re talking like ~50kbs to 1MB so not that huge in the grand scheme of things :laughing:

Directly underneath the Thumbnail key is the GraphDocumentaionURL key where your URL lives, and below that is the Graph Properties extension, within which is a Data key where all your Custom Properties live as key:value dictionary pairs: