Select Family Type by GUID

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Hey,
I have a simple problem that I cannot seem to get around. I need to select a family type by it’s GUID’s, but it doesn’t seem to be an option in Dynamo.
I export the types, some parameters and their GUID’s to excel, fill in information in excel and bring that back in and populate the parameters with the data. I know I can us element ID’s, but it is a work-sharing enable project and it could be a few days before I get the information back in excel.
Does anyone know of a way to select family types by a GUID?
I did see that @Peter_Kompolschek had a post a while back here:

but I couldn’t see the image clearly due to the forum change (i think)
any help would be great!
Thanks
Neil

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Hi Neil,

This will give you clear picture :wink:

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I can see clearly now the resolution has come.
Thanks @Kulkul

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Error in syntax of code above in the end- cleared out try/except to catch errors for i…
import clr
clr.AddReference(‘ProtoGeometry’)
from Autodesk.DesignScript.Geometry import *

#import ToDSType(bool) extension method
clr.AddReference("RevitNodes")
import Revit
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.Elements)

# Import DocumentManager and TransactionManager
clr.AddReference ("RevitServices")
import RevitServices
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager
from RevitServices.Transactions import TransactionManager

from System.Collections.Generic import *

#Import Revit API
clr.AddReference("RevitAPI")
import Autodesk
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import *

doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument
uiapp = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentUIApplication
app = uiapp.Application

#The inputs to this node will be stores as a list in the IN variable
dataEngineeringNode = IN
doc = IN[1]

#unwrap incoming info for use with API
guids = UnwrapElement(IN[0])

#use ElementIDs to select elements
elements = []
errors = []
message = None
for i in guids:
	try:
		elements.append(doc.GetElement(i))
	except:
		errors.append(i)
		pass

#Assign your output to the OUT variable
if len(errors)>0:
	OUT = elements,errors
else:
	OUT = Elements
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