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 …

“Description” is a Type Parameter So Download Rhythms Package and use “setParameterbynameype orInstance” node [image]

[InkedCapture%20(4)_LI] 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.

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 wil…

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

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.

See if this helps with dictionaries… [image] Reduce list parameter replace code Lists-Logic Hey, have a look at this… [image] Cheers, Mark

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

Try to set your lacing to longest in "set parameter

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

Sort Type Elements by Name and Change its parameters Values

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Mark.Ackerley February 1, 2019, 3:18pm 7

See if this helps with dictionaries…

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Sort Type Elements by Name and Change its parameters Values

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