Set multiple templates to view, one after another

Revit
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Hello Dynamo Community!
This is my first post but it for sure won´t be the last one! I´m pretty new to Dynamo and Revit and i`m having fun experimenting and lerning. I´m having trouble with my first script and would appreciate your help.

Task:

  1. find all views with specific view template
  2. set new view template (e.g.: wall_views_filter)
  3. set another view template (e.g.: wall_views)

Reason:
Our worklflow is to have a filter-template for our view types. For example, we have a wall_views template and a corresponding wall_views_filter template. We first apply the _filter template to our views and then the other template in wich filters are not “included”. So if i want to make changes to the _filter template i would like to update all wall-views with the wall_views_filter template and set them back to wall_views in a last step.

I found a script here in this forum that does part 1 and 2. But i can`t figure out how to set another view template after. Here is what i have so far.

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Thanks in advance!

Kind regards, Gerhard

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Welcome to the community!

The Views.SetViewTemplate node should pass the list of views through to the node output.
What happens when you chain a second SetViewTemplate to the first?

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You may need to include separate transactions between applying each template.

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Hy Robert, thank you!

If i make a second chain like this it skips the “test 2” template, and directly sets the template “test 3”. So it skips the template that would be my _filter template, so no filters are applyed.

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Thanks Nick, but i have now idea how to do this. My result is a node output of one view, how to start a seperate transaction from there?

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There are nodes for this. You need to apply each template within a pair of Start/End Transaction nodes.

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It´s working :grinning: Thank you very much!

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