Apply Revisions to Sheets using Dynamo (+Custom UI!)

Today’s video focused on how to add/remove revisions from sheets. The video also covers how to implement a User Interface on your scripts using Data-Shapes custom nodes package.
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[@nathanwalker3217]

thanks so much mate. Got it working in 2023. Cheers will be using it all next week keen!!!

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Glad to hear!

[@dl6059]

This still works! Excellent tutorial Gavin thank you.

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Great to hear, and youre welcome!

[@jeremybowen6269]

You have the best tutorial and most useful!

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Thanks Jeremy!

[@HeiFirma]

Thank you for the totorial Gavin.

[@AussieBIMGuru]

You're welcome!

[@patrickmeares3837]

hi Gavin, thanks for the tutorial, having trouble with the add/remove to sheet note, the arhi-lab package seems to give me the correct tile but is missing the var[ ] for revision, second line

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Sometimes nodes change between different versions, but ideally it should have similar inputs in location to the node I used at least. What are the inputs you see?

[@patrickmeares3837]

@@AussieBIMGuru HI Gavin Thanks for getting back to me is is very much appreciated, but I reloaded the archi-lab package yesterday and it seemed to fix the problem, I notice it was recommended on the dynamo forum

[@apurvkashyap35]

Hi Gavin, thank you for the tutorial. I tried this script and found out that @15:32, the sheet is ticked by default because we have fed the value 0 using a code block into the 'DefaultModeOnly_optional' input of UI.Listview Data node. Since it is an optional input i removed the code block and now all of the sheets in the list appear unchecked. Problem solved. I hope it helps :)

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Yes i found this was the best way also in later testing, thanks!

[@xiaomi9865]

Hi, is it possible to do a multiline text for the revision description. For eg, 1. Change arch. Break, 2. Change power.

[@AussieBIMGuru]

No I believe revisions are limited to a single line of text in their data. Usually to describe changes of revisions I add a comment to the cloud, then use a special tag on the cloud to show the related number and the comments of the cloud.

[@xiaomi9865]

@@AussieBIMGuru ok. Thank you

[@mehdi-o3g4e]

Hey, I am letting you know that the bakery package is not compatible with the archilab in the revit 2024, what do you suggest using instead?

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Yeah bakerys pretty bad these days. I have nodes for adding revisions in Crumple package now, and data shapes can be used to collect user inputs. Check my later dynamo tutorials where i revisit this workflow.

[@Ron96577]

Hi Gavin. Thank you for another quality video/content. Where do you get the custom nodes - UI/UX from? Thank you.

[@AussieBIMGuru]

These are from the data shapes package.

[@Ron96577]

@@AussieBIMGuru After doing research I came across their website and found how you can install packages through dynamo. I only started using dynamo last Thursday. Haven't done any course etc. Thank you. How do I get the package installed. I like the idea of this script. Thank you, Gavin.

[@AussieBIMGuru]

You're welcome! Their package can be installed via the packge manager in Dynamo itself. It should be called data-shapes

[@Ron96577]

@@AussieBIMGuru Thank you. Just wasn't exact on the name. I have created the script. So Powerful and quick. However, once run, the List.Map pin drop down window states 'Trace (Most recent call last)File "String" Attribute error 'Revision' object has no attribute 'Get additional revisions IDs' Thank you for your help, Gavin

[@AussieBIMGuru]

@@Ron96577 you're welcome! An alternative to the list.map approach is using the add/remove boolean to drive the 'runit' input for add/remove nodes. If you flip the boolean to 'not' for remove, and use it normally for add then this would also only allow one or the other to run.

[@sarag4342]

Hi, I was able to follow along and ran the script without errors, but the revision never shows up on my sheets, and when I select the option to remove them, they do not get removed. I'm not sure where I went wrong.

[@AussieBIMGuru]

Hrm that sounds strange, maybe try this version which I made recently which is a bit more straightforward: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oam9gIKtnL6sr5I It uses the same UI, but a different back end.

[@sarag4342]

​@@AussieBIMGuru Thank you!

[@xiaomi9865]

Hi, is it possible to hide the first revision, eg rev '0' on the revision schedule but show it in the title block

[@AussieBIMGuru]

The only way I've seen people do this is by making the rev '0' blank in description and date, and mask it in a black filled region header above. I do not believe there is a way to filter a revision out of the schedule itself however.

[@xiaomi9865]

Thk u

[@AussieBIMGuru]

@@xiaomi9865 you're welcome!

[@darrenrance3130]

could you please provide the links to download the custom nodes

[@AussieBIMGuru]

This is archilab and data shapes which are both on the package manager.