Problem opening dynamo scripts from pyrevit

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Hi everyone :grinning:,

I want to create my first extension for my existing scripts using pyrevit. I have already set up the folder structure according to the rules.

I am having a problem opening the dynamo scripts using the pyrevit extension. The problem is that the scripts won’t open. The scripts only open in Dynamo when Dynamo is open. This is not what I want. I want the script to open directly as dynamo player just like Aussie does in this Video:
Run Dynamo scripts using pyRevit! - YouTube

What I already tried:.
I’ve searched on forums, tutorials and I didn’t see enyone had this problem?

I have some packages installed in dynamo, but in the simplest scripts I don’t have packages and python nodes and even then won’t open. I have already tried to uninstall many of them with the same result.

I am running this from the following versions:
Dynamo 2.19.3.
Revit 2024.2
The latest release: pyRevit_4.8.16.24121_admin_signed

I have also tried this with the latest pyRevit version v. 5.0.0. 24229+1041

I am trying to save this for hours, but I think there must be a simple trick :saluting_face:.

Regards,
Damjan

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Are you holding CTRL key when you click the button?

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If I hold down CTRL+click then the script will open directly in Dynamo, as it should.

But I want to open the script directly as a Dynamo player to see the inputs and outputs.

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If I read literrally, then: dynamo player is another piece of software and not supported

if you already have a ui in your dynamo script (data-shapes for ex.) or no ui at all
then follow this:
read this bundles in the section dynamo scripts

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I found the problem. I had some input nodes in Dynamo that needed to be exicuted before the UI data shapes.

I had to modify scripts.

And some of the scripts had a simple Dynamo native input node that probably cannot be exicuted from PyRevit.

Did I understand correctly that from Dynamo packages only UI from D|S can be exicuted in Pyrevit?

What about the outputs. Is there a common way to connect my outputs, for example watch nodes, and print them in the UI from python script? Or i need to capcure the result from the Dynamo graph into txt. or csv file and than read the output from PyRevit Python Script?

In the next few months I will learn more about making pyrevit python scripts, but for now I just want to set save my work (mostly dynamo scripts) in pyrevit extension.

Thanks for your help :sunglasses:!

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No not exactly, you can build your own. But just an output node won’t cut it

Yes that or to some db