Smartbutton error

Revit API
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I have a smart button that toggles a custom view mode (this is my first attempt at a smartbutton). It is working fine on my machine, but when I deploy it to others, they get this error when opening revit:

ERROR [pyrevit.loader.uimaker] Smart button script import error: <type_id ‘.smartbutton’ name ‘My Tool Name’ @ path\to\my\tool.smartbutton> | ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute 'ActiveView

i copied the self.init function from the override 2D elements function built into pyrevit:

doc = revit.doc
activeView = doc.ActiveView

def __selfinit__(script_cmp, ui_button_cmp, __rvt__):
    off_icon = script_cmp.get_bundle_file('off.png')
    ui_button_cmp.set_icon(off_icon)

It seems to me that it’s trying to get the active view before a document is actually open. The odd thing is that it’s inconsistent. It works on some machines, but not others.

any ideas why this would be happening?

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Can you please show the entire code? From what you posted I’d say your missing an import: where does revit come from?
One thing you can try is to put your script inside a main function, place it after the __selfinit__ one and call main() at the end of the file.
Not sure if this solves the problem, bit in plain python this is a good practice to avoid script execution when a module is imported.

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the “revit” is pyrevit.revit in this case. Your suggestion of rapping it in main seems to have done the trick though. Thanks for the help!

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