View- Saved Position Parameter (2026+)- How to "get" Saved Positions?

Working in Revit 2026.1 currently (havent checked in 2026.4 yet).

The new “Saved Positions” are there, as properties of the views. They list themselves as “ViewPosition” but ViewPosition doesnt show up in the Categories drop down. If you do Element.Parameters on one of them, their Category is listed as Sheets: View Saved Positions. That doesnt show up in the Categories drop down list either.

I couldnt get either to work using Category.ByName, either.

For what im doing right now, im getting around it by just selecting them by Element ID, but thats super icky. I want to collect them all and Filter by the Saved Positions Name. I feel like i am missing something obvious…

Hi @Aaron_Maller how about element classes and all elements of class, maybe …

Ahh shoot. I always forget to try Classes. Thanks!! I will go try right now!

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yep try it :wink:

Bingo!

I gotta remember: Classes, not just Categories. LOL.

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and a nice opportunity we’ve got there, with viewposition :wink:

Oh absolutely!

The new view positions mean we can archive like five other graphs that we use, that take hours to run whenever we run them.

Plus it means project teams won’t need to run them at all. It’s such a huge win.

yeah 100 agree :wink: and works with project transfer as well..

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Yeah, actually what are the differences between classes and categories again?

Class are a type of object in object oriented programming, so this isn’t unique to Revit or Dynamo. If it is a class it should have a matching section in the Revit API. Objects of a class are often not visible in the model geometry.

Categories are unique to Revit and are used to classify elements. A category can contain objects of multiple classes (there are two or three classes of roof but only one category). Categories are the primary way of structuring collections of elements and drive visibility graphics. Objects of a category are almost always visible in the model geometry.

Ahh thats a great explanation. Thanks for that. :slight_smile:

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So if I only want Compound Ceilings or a certain Annotation Symbol like a Multi-Category Tag, I should call on Class?

Not sure on those, but class is always a good place to start!