Is there a way / package / node to show who created an element? All my searches have come up empty on this. Thanks in advance!

There is a way http://www.revitapidocs.com/2018.1/1e54c25f-7d7a-7484-be7b-d741084418a9.htm I don’t know any packages that have that functionality though.

Thanks. I was hoping to find something for a non-workshare enabled model. This may work, though, provided the process of enabling worksharing doesn’t “reset” all of the element owner info. Thanks again!

Yes it works, also for not-workshared models. I’m currently working on a Revit Addin and I already have a button to get those information, but not a dynamo custom node. However it should be very easy to create one with Python. If you have no clue where to start, I can make it for you, but it would …

That would be awesome! I literally just started watching a LinkedIn Learning session 10 minutes ago about the basics of Python so that would be a great little program to mess around with and learn about both Python and the Revit API. I totally appreciate that.

I can’t remember exactly, but I think the Archi-Lab package has a node for this, but I am not at a computer. [image] Worksharing info for Revit element Revit Hi, Can we extract these info using the dynamo and populate it to individual shared parameters? I want to do this…

I was finding it a bit weird, that nobody had the idea to make a node out of it. Here are two nodes from Archilab and Rhythm: [CreatorUser] I tested it on a not workshared file (just creating a simple file,close it, let a colleague add a door, save it and close it again) and it works

Python code for same: import clr clr.AddReference('RevitAPI') from Autodesk.Revit.DB import * # For accessing Document and Transactions clr.AddReference('RevitServices') import RevitServices from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager # Creating Instance of Document and Application doc =…

you may get this function from pyrevit as well "who did that?? " [image]

[image] Matt_W: This may work, though, provided the process of enabling worksharing doesn’t “reset” all of the element owner info. That it will. So would cutting a new central (open detached and saving as a new model). This is why I recommend frequent backups and starting worksharing on day 0…

Who created element?

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SeanP February 25, 2019, 1:45pm 8

I can’t remember exactly, but I think the Archi-Lab package has a node for this, but I am not at a computer.

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