Yaml & Spacebar in folders

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Hi All,

I am really new to pyRevit and after watching some videos on Youtube i have been eager to get into it to make it easier to run my Dynamo scripts as i can turn my scripts into buttons on a tab at the top of Revit. However i appear to have a couple of minor issues with the layout of it. I would like to have my Panels ordered Worksets / Reinforcement / Drawings

my yaml code is:
layout:
…-.Worksets
…-.-----
…-.Reinforcement
…-.-----
…-.Drawings

However on the screen it shows it as Reinforcement / Worksets / Drawings

Am i doing something wrong?

Also in yaml is it possible to have a space for when you have a space in a file name?
As an example rather than having to do “TestDocument” can you do “Test Document”

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Hi @Wilko1306 and welcome!

Proper syntax should be

layout:
  - Worksets
  - Reinforcement
  - Drawings

sometimes, reloading is not enough and you have to restart Revit to regenerate the UI

You usually can have spaces in file naming. I haven’t encountered issue with that. If the spacing bugs in the file name, you can had double quotes "file name"

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Hi @Jean-Marc

Thank you for welcoming me.

i have copied your syntax into my yaml file however they still all appear to be out of order
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Where is your yaml file located? Maybe at the wrong folder level?
See, mine, it works, and look at which level it is located

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It is located on a server (so all users can access it)

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That is what the file path looks like

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and that is the bundle at that level
I assume it doesn’t matter if it is .Panel or .panel?

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.panel or .Panel, Go for .panel ;p

BUT

yml or yaml

go for yaml for your bundle.yaml file

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Hi @Jean-Marc

I have changed them and removed it from my revit completely and added back in fresh and still no luck

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@Wilko1306
the yaml format is a very sensible one (at least in pyrevit)
you need to respect the spacing of things
I suggest you run it through this tool https://www.yamllint.com/

in pseudo code:

layout:
2 spaces, a dash, 1 space, your panel name
2 spaces, a dash, 1 space, your panel name
2 spaces, a dash, 1 space, your panel name

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@Jean-Marc thank you, that is now working for organising my panels!

if i then have pushbuttons inside of the panel files and i am trying to organise them it does not appear to be working in the same way?

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apologise if there is a website etc for this sort of stuff

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great,
It does work the same so it is either a typo, a syntax error, or you did not restart Revit

The documentation of these features is here Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.

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i have had to do a bit of a workaround as it does not seem to like ordering “Create” then “Category” so i have changed “Category” to “Category To” and now it works fine

thank you for all your help @Jean-Marc

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There is a spacebar behind “layout:” and “Create”.
Delete it and it works.
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It´s easier to see if the red marked is on:
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and even better if you use a code editor! ;p

at the beginning, the yaml syntax got me debugging for hours, then I discovered some websites like https://www.yamllint.com/, and code editor extensions that helped with yaml specific syntax

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This is great! Thanks @Jean-Marc & @Manuel486
Your posts helped me fix my .yaml’s too.

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