[MStn CE U17.2 C#] Hide/Unhide levels of referenced/nested reference file.

I did find a partial solution to this problem.

 private static bool FindLevelInAttachment(DgnAttachment dgnFile, string Name)
 {
     DgnAttachmentCollection dgnAttachments = dgnFile.GetDgnAttachments();
     bool levelFound = SearchForLevelInAttachments(dgnAttachments);

     if (levelFound)
     {
         // The level was found
         return true;
     }
     else
     {
         // Level was not found after iterating through all attachments
     }

     bool SearchForLevelInAttachments(DgnAttachmentCollection attachments)
     {
         foreach (DgnAttachment attachment in attachments)
         {
             if (CheckIfAttachmentContainsLevel(attachment))
             {
                 return true; // Level found, exit and return true
             }
             else
             {
                 // Check for nested attachments
                 DgnAttachmentCollection nestedAttachments = attachment.GetDgnAttachments();

                 if (SearchForLevelInAttachments(nestedAttachments))
                 {
                     return true; // Level found in a nested attachment, exit and return true
                 }
             }
         }

         return false; // Level not found in this attachment or its nested attachments
     }

     bool CheckIfAttachmentContainsLevel(DgnAttachment attachment)
     {
         // Add your logic here to check if the attachment contains the desired level
         // Return true if the level is found, otherwise return false
         LevelCache levelCache = attachment.GetLevelCache();
         FileLevelCache fileCache = attachment.GetFileLevelCache();

         LevelHandleCollection lhcLevel = levelCache.GetHandles();

         LevelHandleCollection lhcFile = fileCache.GetHandles();

         foreach (LevelHandle lh in lhcLevel)
         {

             if (lh.Name == Name)
             {
                 EditLevelHandle edaHandle = lh.GetEditHandle();
                 string handleName = edaHandle.Name;
                 //edaHandle.Hidden = false;
                 edaHandle.Display = false;
                 return true;
             }

         }
         return false;
     }
     return false;
 }

This function seems to work when there is a reference already attached to a DGN(when I open a DGN with a reference attached).

When I call this function while attaching a reference, it seems to execute without any error but does not override the levels as shown below.

DgnModel dgnSheetModel = activeDgn.LoadRootModelById(out StatusInt statusInt, sheetmodleid, true, true, true);
DgnAttachment refToCreate;
try
{
    refToCreate = dgnSheetModel.CreateDgnAttachment(activeDgn.GetDocument().GetMoniker(), Properties.Settings.Default.ModelName_Seed);
    double decimalScale = 1.0 / Properties.Settings.Default.Scale;
    refToCreate.ApplyStandardView(standardView, 1, decimalScale); /*0.01*/
    refToCreate.SetRefOrigin(viewLocation);
    refToCreate.NestDepth = 6;
    refToCreate.WriteToModel(true);
    if (standardView == StandardView.Top && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(Properties.Settings.Default.LevelsToHide))
    {
        string[] levels = Properties.Settings.Default.LevelsToHide.Split('#');

        foreach (string level in levels)
        {
            try
            {
                FindLevelInAttachment(refToCreate, level);
            }
            catch (Exception)
            {

                
            }

        }
    }
}
catch (Exception ex)
{

    MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}

Could anyone explain why it doesn't work in the latter case?

Suraj Kumar said:

Could anyone explain why it doesn't work in the latter case?

I can speculate, but I can't explain.

This extract is from the MicroStationAPI C++ documentation (it's always useful to check that document, which is often more verbose than the .NET help): To create an attachment, call DgnModelRef::CreateDgnAttachment, then set up the defining parameters and logical, and then call WriteToModel. To set up defining parameters or to modify the parameters of an attachment, call Set functions, and then call WriteToModel..

Hi Jon,

It did help me to hide some of the elements. But what I noticed is the element that is shown below 

When I am hiding the above level the element that is 'Cell: W201 \ Line String' is not hiding even though I could see the level set to not visible in the level manager. The element that is a simple line string is getting hidden successfully.

I could not understand what was happening in the background. 

Please suggest any solution to this.

Suraj Kumar said:

the element that is 'Cell: W201 \ Line String' is not hiding

If a level is the active level it cannot be hidden.  Using MicroStation tools, can you make that line-string invisible?

Yes, it gets hidden when I manually try hiding it from the layer manager.

Yes, it gets hidden when I manually try hiding it from the layer manager.