Sort Type Elements by Name and Change its parameters Values

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#1

Hi guys,
I’ve been trying to sort some family types from wall sweeps on a project, to set specific values for the same parameter, but I’m not getting there. This is my roadmap to create this script:
_1st: collect all Wall Sweep types in project;
_2nd: filtering the wall sweep types, based on its names;
_3rd: Sorting the collected wall sweeps by element type names;
_4th: setting the parameter value based on a list already sorted by element type name (in excel but in this sample I made it with a code block).

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The struggle here, has being that I cannot get the elements already sorted by name.
The last node is expecting elements (not a string) but in the filter list, it is sorted by ID (not by name).
I’m sending the script sample as well as a RVT sample.
Does anyone know how can it be solved?
Thank you in advance!
Set parameter for System Familytype list.dyn (20.8 KB)
Project1.rvt (352 KB)

#2

“Description” is a Type Parameter So Download Rhythms Package and use “setParameterbynameype orInstance” node
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Change the order of the descriptions in the code block aswell
and as @dineshsubramani says , its a type parameter, get it by using Element.Element.Type before the SetParameter node.

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#4

Hi Marcel, thank you for your answer.
The ListFilterByBoolMask is ordering the elementTypes by its ID, that’s why I need to sort it first by name before set its parameter value. The tricky part here is, once this is just a sample, i cannot change the code block order. Instead of a code block, I will use an excel file with a lot of elements values that makes it impossible to change the order one by one.

#5

You could use a dictionary to pull the values?
See it as a list with counterparts.
Feed it 1 and you’ll get A
Feed it 2 and you’ll get B
and so on
You can create a dictionary with list comming from excel

#6

Thank you again Marcel.
Honeslty, I’ve never worked with dictionary in dynamo. I will try to figure out how it can be helpul in this situation and hope to get some solution to post here.

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#7

See if this helps with dictionaries…

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#8

I met same problem. I also follow this instruction But iit didn’t work. My input for element in " Element.SetParameterByname is not correct "
How to fix it ? thank you

#9

Try to set your lacing to longest in "set parameter

#10

this is " Warning: Element.SetParameterByName operation failed.
No parameter found by that name. "

#11

could you show your graph ?

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This is my graph, please help me check it. Thank you

#13

can you show your parameter name and value or share the dyn as well

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This graph is added with parameter name and values

#15

great …are you sure its a type parameter ? try to write to description parameter for check…

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the parameter name alread added in revit model. I would like to set value for parameter but only some kine of family type.

#17

allright looks like a instance parameter and you are writing to the type

#18

sure. I can add for wall categorie, But I only wanna set value parameter for some kind of family type. It is doesn work. Do you know how to solve this problem ?

#19

try something here instead…

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#20

thank so much for your helping. But I try but it doesnt work .

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