Hi,
Is it possible to ‘Execute external commands’ on a custom extension command from within a script.py?
For instance looking at the journal file this is the record of the pyRevit Spy command:
Jrn.RibbonEvent “Execute external command:CustomCtrl_%CustomCtrl_%CustomCtrl_%pyRevit%pyRevit%Spy%List Elements:pyrevitcore-pyrevit-pyrevit-tools-spy-listelements”
Is it possible to call this from within another script?
Thanks,
Eoin
from pyrevit.loader import sessionmgr
# put the unique id of the command there
sessionmgr.execute_command("pyrevitdevtools-pyrevit-****")
To get the unique Id of any pyRevit tool, Shift+Win Click on the button and click on the appropriate item in the menu 
Thanks, you’re a star Ehsan. This addin just gets better and better!
Haha of course and thank you. Just out of curiousity what’s a use case for calling an external command directly?
The use case here is in a doc-opened hook to call a loaded model audit script every time a model is opened. I didn’t want to copy / paste the code just because I couldn’t reference it!
sounds like a preflight check ;p
Sort of yes. But specific to our office standards and unavoidable
I like the ‘unavoidable’ !
@eirannejad thanks for the solution!
@eprunty can you please share how you used sessionmgr.execute_command with the doc-opened hook? I copied the code to the hooks/doc-opened.py file but an error occurred:
Unfortunately I also ran into issues with this. It worked in the session I had open but then when I closed and opened a new Revit session it stopped working in doc-opened and I’ve had to remove the hook until such a time that I can look into it again. Perhaps @eirannejad can shed some light on sessionmgr’s availability in the doc-opened context?
@GertjanVDB it checks for elements of our office standard on model startup between elements and parameters applied
