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The tabs indicate the scope or level of a macro.
■ Application tab. The Application tab lists macro modules available to all opened Revit projects in the
current instance of the Revit application. It is always the first tab to the left and active (indicated by the
icon). It is always available, whether projects are open.
NOTE If you send the RVT file to a person on another computer, application level macros would not be
available.
■ Active document tab. The active document tab represents the currently active project in Revit. The project
does not necessarily contain embedded macros as in this case, although it can. The tab bears the name
of the active project (Project1 in this case) and is indicated by the icon. This tab is not visible when a
project is not open.
■ Inactive document tabs. Inactive document tabs represent open projects that contain embedded macros
(see below). The tab bears the name of the project (Project2 and Project3 in this case).
You add, modify, build, and delete modules and macros from these tabs.
Macros and Modules
A module is an organizational grouping of macros. Macros can be either independent within a module when
they run, or share code or utilities with each other. They are arranged in the Macro Manager as follows with
the macros organized under their parent module.
Macros within a module are seen and built together. The icons representing the module also show their
current state.
Macro State Icon
The module is successfully built, enabled, and loaded.
This module is ready to be run. See
Running Macros in
the Macro Manager on page 1433.
The module has been edited, but not built. See Building
Macros in the Revit VSTA IDE on page 1432.
The module is disabled. See Macro Security on page 1434.
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