Super Tag - Parameters grouping

In this examples I'm trying to retrieve the parameters of a generic model representing a person (a generic model smile shaped) in a room with all the equipment that belongs to his/her such as the workstation or the phone (each family has its own parameters).

In the previous example parameters were just listed in a certain order hard-coded in the Updater, this time the order needs to change slightly so that the parameters referring to a spefic person are all consequential.

In order to do this an additional step must be included in the process.

The best way I could think of is to group the families involved (the person, the workstation and the phone), retrieve the parameters for grouped objects first and then the remaining outside of groups.

Super Tag - Dynamic Model Update

I've been wrapping my head around dynamic model update in order to push my code further to be more "Revit-ish", so it updates instantly and has no longer a "fire and forget" sort of behaviour.

I've implemented an IUpdater interface that loops through the family instances, reads their parameters in a certain order and then pushes them into the comments of the room.

It's not perfectly Revit since it's not bi-directional at the moment, anyway it gets the job done nicely.

Technically the oddest part in developing this idea was to realize that an IUpdater doesn't need a transaction to work.

Applications are endless, this one I called "Super Tag", it would give the ability to the users to push calculated values into tags (finally!), embedding a piece of code in the template file assuring that everyone on the team has the same tools available.

There are considerations to make on performances, but it sure is a great thing we have to suit our design.