topic How to get attributes status as shown in picture? in Archicad C++ API

How to get attributes status as shown in picture?

Newbie — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:17:57 GMT

From Attributes Manager we can select and save as text of attributes use in project as show below picture, I am looking for way to get the status 'Inuse' via any API functions or any workaround.

Is anyone has an idea?

Re: How to get attributes status as shown in picture?

Steve Jepson — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 21:56:02 GMT

If you archive the file as .pla will have pretty much only what was used in the file. And you can also "purge" all unused stuff using the attributes manager. Select All > Append > Save as TXT

That gives you a list of everything in the project file that is manageable with the Attributes Manager. ? Does that help ?

Re: How to get attributes status as shown in picture?

Newbie — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:47:13 GMT

Sorry if my question is not clear. I am looking for API function or workaround method to retrieve the status 'Inuse' of attribute as shown in the sample picture from elements.

Re: How to get attributes status as shown in picture?

BerndSchwarzenbacher — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 06:08:28 GMT

I never found an API function that returns exactly that information.
The only approach I came up is to actually iterate through all the elements (and other attributes) and check if the attribute is used.
This is very cumbersome and you'd have to know all the places where a potential attribute could be used.