When trying to use the Objects.BuiltElements.Revit.ParameterUpdater to update parameter values coming from Excel I’m missing the option to access the elementTypeId, so that I can update Type Parameters.
Following the example in the docs Excel | Speckle Docs I was getting frustrated about not being able to update a certain BUILT-IN type parameter, but realized that I was using elementId’s opposing to elementTypeId.
Looking in Revit and getting the elementTypeId, using Revit Lookup, I was able to succeed with the process, but I’m still missing the elementTypeId on the speckle Base object.
Would that be possible to implement in the speckle-sharp repo?
Thanks for this, yes it’s definitely possible :). We had originally excluded any property of type ElementId to be sent via Speckle primarily because these numbers a meaningless outside Revit (or outside a specific Revit document) and we would rather instead transfer information that could be consumed by other software.
But I do think yours is a valid use case, so I’ll try play a bit with it today!
Thank you so much @teocomi - much appreciated.
A small addition would be to include the element category, since this is also only available for elementTypes.
I see and understand the reasons as of why it’s only available for elementTypes, but it would very beneficial to have the category when querying the objects in Excel and GraphQL.
