How to resolve Revit "Error - cannot be ignored" errors when Harvesting

AVAIL for Revit 5.6.0.0 is in Preview Release (beta).
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Harvest will now respect Revit "Error - cannot be ignored" and cancel the Harvest process, to prevent incomplete Harvest output (an incomplete Sheet for example).

When you encounter "Error - cannot be ignored", resolve those errors in Revit, then Harvest again.

Steps to resolve Revit "Error - cannot be ignored":

With AVAIL:

Resolve errors in Revit before Harvesting again:

1. Harvest errors are shown in the Harvest UI. Click "errors" to see a list of views and sheets that errored. Although this is not enough information to resolve "Errors - cannot be ignored", see item 3.

2. There is information in the Harvest logs too, but this also is not enough to resolve the Revit errors.

3. To resolve the errors, follow these steps:

   • index the RVT container file into an AVAIL Channel, only for debugging purposes. _{Create a new channel for this purpose. Do not make the Channel a Host in Cloud channel.}

1. • Select the container file in AVAIL desktop

   • In Revit, in a new Revit project file, click the VIEW PROJECT button in the AVAIL Project Navigator tray.

   • an AVAIL dialog opens

   • In the dialog, click Sheets or Drafting Views

   • find the sheet or view of interest, and

   • attempt to LOAD it into Revit (push the green Load button in the AVAIL popup).

   • Specific errors will be shown in a Revit dialog box.

     • The "Show" button in the dialog can be informative

     • An error resolution button may be shown in the dialog (for example, "Unjoin elements")

   • Resolve the errors in Revit, and make note of the types of Revit elements that you repaired.

   • Use Revit Transfer Project Standards to transfer the repaired elements back into the RVT container file from which you Harvest. Save the file after transferring the repaired standards.

   • Then Harvest again.

Without AVAIL, Revit only:

1. In Revit, in a new Revit project file, Use View>Insert Views From File

2. Insert erroring sheets and views from the container file.

3. Review and resolve the errors

   • Make note of the types of Revit elements that you repaired.

   • Use Revit Transfer Project Standards to transfer the repaired elements back into the RVT container file from which you Harvest. Save the file after transferring the repaired standards.

   • Then Harvest again.