View Template Include Setting

A quick note to highlight a solution shared by Teocomi to solve a longstanding question in the Revit API discussion forum ↗ thread on view template ‘include’ ↗:

Question: Does the Revit API provide any access to the view template ‘include’ settings defined by the check boxes in this form?

Answer: I can get the ‘includes’ via viewTemplate.GetNonControlledTemplateParameterIds.

The method returns a list of parameter ids, and you can then use viewTemplate.Parameters to map them.

The same also works for setting them, cf. the following example:

  // Create a list so that I can use linq

  var viewparams = new List<Parameter>();
  foreach( Parameter p in viewTemplate.Parameters )
    viewparams.Add( p );

  // Get parameters by name (safety checks needed)

  var modelOverrideParam = viewparams
    .Where( p
      => p.Definition.Name == "V/G Overrides Model" )
    .First();

  var viewScaleParam = viewparams
    .Where( p
      => p.Definition.Name == "View Scale" )
    .First();

  // Set includes

  viewTemplate.SetNonControlledTemplateParameterIds(
    new List<ElementId> {
  modelOverrideParam.Id, viewScaleParam.Id } );

Thank you, Teocomi, for sharing this!