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StairsEditScope.Start

Description:
Starts an stairs edit mode for an existing Stairs element

Remarks:
User will need to start a transaction to actually make changes to the stairs element. StairsEditScope can only be started when there is no transaction active Thus it does not work for commands running in automatic transaction mode.

Overloads (2):

Start(ElementId)

Start(ElementId,ElementId)

public ElementId Start(
	ElementId stairsId
)

Public Function Start ( _
	stairsId As ElementId _
) As ElementId

public:
ElementId^ Start(
	ElementId^ stairsId
)

Autodesk.Revit.DB.ElementId

stairsId

The stairs element to be edited.

Return Value ElementId of the editing stairs. It should be the same as the input stairsId

Autodesk.Revit.Exceptions.ArgumentException

It is not a Stair's id. -or- Stairs is not permitted to edit at this moment for the following reason: The Stairs is in an ElementGroup and it is not in Edit Group Mode.
Autodesk.Revit.Exceptions.ArgumentNullException

A non-optional argument was null
Autodesk.Revit.Exceptions.InvalidOperationException

This StairsEditScope is not permitted to start at this moment for one of the following possible reasons: The document is in read-only state, or the document is currently modifiable, or there already is another edit mode active in the document.