Paramter values of views

[chris.macko]

Hi all,
I am trying to pull a value out of a view parameter that I've added as part of a view template. This is a script that will create views based on scope boxes in the model and an assigned view template, and I want to be able to name the views based on this parameter defined in the template. Element.get parameter comes back blank. parameter.parameter by name shows the value, but it changes to null when I try to convert to a string or pull the value out. The highlighted ANNO-096 is what I'm trying to get in this case. This seems to behave this way for all custom parameters, but works fine for system ones.
In this case I'm pulling it from the view after assigning the template, but if there's a way to pull it from the template directly earlier in the process, that would clean things up a bit.

Thanks for any help in advance

[kraftwerk]

If you are just trying to get the string of that parameter in this circumstance to name a new view, you already have that with the Str from Object node. Can you not use that to name the new view you are creating?

[chris.macko]

That's the problem, the string from object is just returning the parameter name, not the value. the ANNO-096 part is getting lost somehow, and that's what I'm trying to get out.

[elton williams]

why not just use Element.Name after the View.ApplyViewTemplate node?

[Bjorn_K]

Is your ViewID a Type parameter?

[chris.macko]

It is an instance parameter. It is only assigned to views. It's a shared parameter as well, but I tried a project parameter as well and it behaved the same.