Unable to create connections between some EPC objects

Hi Laurent -

Why are you not just setting the connection type in the code rather than iterating through 1000 connection types? This should work:

function connect (model, source, target) {
    var cxnType = null;
    var connection = null;
    var sourceType = source.ObjDef().TypeNum();
    var targetType = target.ObjDef().TypeNum();
    
    if ((sourceType == Constants.OT_EVT) && (targetType == Constants.OT_FUNC)) {
        // Event >> activates (43) >> Function
        cxnType = Constants.CT_ACTIV_1;
    } else if ((sourceType == Constants.OT_PERS_TYPE) && (targetType == Constants.OT_FUNC)) {
        // Person Type >> carries out (218) >> Function
        cxnType = Constants.CT_EXEC_2;
    } else if ((sourceType == Constants.OT_POS) && (targetType == Constants.OT_FUNC)) {
        // Position >> carries out (65) >> Function
        cxnType = Constants.CT_EXEC_1;
    }
    
    if (cxnType != null) {
        connection = model.CreateCxnOcc(true, source, target, cxnType, pointList);
    }
    
    return;
}

Hi Ellen,

First of all, thank you for your answer. It pointed me in the right direction and my script works now :)

I was not setting the exact connection type because

• I wanted to save time and
• because I didn't know to which object combinations the different types belong to.

I tried your code, and much to my regret it didn't solve my problem either (which was to be expected, as all those constant values were already covered by my function). However, I noticed that the argument order plays a major role here: a "Position" has to be the source of the connection. Therefore, I updated my function as follows:

function connect (source, target, stop) {
    // This function "brute force" connects two objects
    
    var i = 0;
    var connection = null;
        
    while(!connection && i < 1000) {
        connection = model.CreateCxnOcc(true, source, target, i++, pointList);
    }
    
    if(!connection && typeof(stop) == 'undefined') connect(target, source, true);
}
Short explanation: If the connection fails, try swapping the source and target value and try again -- straight and simple :)
Again, thank you very very much for your help!
Thanks,
Laurent

Source and target are definitely important in the code. Glad I could help!