Replacing Shared Parameters

Revit
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Hi everyone,

I am looking for a way to replace Shared Parameters! (and not there values)

For example… let’s say I created several families with some Shared Parameters and now I want to change the names of those parameters… I created new ones and I don’t want to have to change all the parameters manually.

Any ideas? Thank you very much,

JIGU

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  1. create a new shared parameter - the definitions for that are in the forum
  2. copy the values from old parameter to new parameter (all occurances)
  3. delete definition for old parameter
    should work
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What you are describing is manual.
Or did I miss understand?

My concern are not the values for now, it’s the parameters and their naming.

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jigu that is exactly what i tried to explain!
in my reply i was just talking about parameters not values

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What Peter outlined is the only viable approach. That is because once you add a shared parameter to a project or a family, it gets converted to a binding. From what I’ve tried, Revit’s api does not provide us with any tools to track the guid of the original shared parameter from that binding.

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Hello Guys,

I have the same issue at hand.

Is it possible to do step no. 2 using Dynamo?
2) copy the values from old shared (type) parameter to new shared (type) parameter
(all occurances)

Thanks so much in advance !

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Yes. The Element.GetParameterValueByName and Element.SetParameterByName nodes allow for this behavior. Just make sure you are feeding in the right elements.

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definitely!
best peter