Return value of BrowseArisItems(...)

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Maik Scharlau on March 31, 2011

Hi there,

I've some trouble with the return value of the Aris method BrowseArisItems.

It is supposed to return

"selected items as a string containing the IDs (GUID, OID or string) of the selected items, separated by ";".

So I expect a String containing a GUID by choosing one VAC from the dialog created by this method. But the return value is not the GUID, it is not even a String.

I can handle the String conversion, but I'd like to know which value is returned by the method.

Has anyone experienced similar behaviour? Could it be a problem regarding the encoding?

Regards,

Maik

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Freddy Barkhuizen on March 31, 2011 - 23:27

Hi Maik,

It looks like that method returns a string containing Object IDs seperated by ";"

Have a look at the following code:

var nLanguage = Context.getSelectedLanguage();
var aDatabase = ArisData.getActiveDatabase();
var sServerName = aDatabase.ServerName();

var sStr = Dialogs.BrowseArisItems("Select Model","Select one or more Models",sServerName,aDatabase.Name(nLanguage),Constants.CID_MODEL);

Dialogs.MsgBox(sStr);        

if (sStr == ""){
     Dialogs.MsgBox("Please select one or more Models");
}else{
    
    var arr = sStr.split(";");
    
    Dialogs.MsgBox(arr.length + " Models selected");
    
    for(var i=0; i<arr.length; i++) {
        var oModel = aDatabase.FindOID(arr[i]); 
        
        if (oModel.KindNum()==Constants.CID_MODEL) 
            Dialogs.MsgBox(oModel.Name(nLanguage) + "(" + oModel.Type() + ")"); 
    }

}

Hope this helps.

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Maik Scharlau Author on April 6, 2011 - 14:12

That's it. Thanks a lot.

Regards,

Maik

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Francois Du Toit on August 13, 2013 - 07:37

Hi Guys,

The command works for models, but not for filters, I just get a blank selection screen...

This happens even if I use the command without the DB specified. Please test it and let me know:

CID_METHODFILTER

var nLanguage = Context.getSelectedLanguage(); 
var aDatabase = ArisData.getActiveDatabase(); 
var sServerName = aDatabase.ServerName(); 
  
var sStr = Dialogs.BrowseArisItems("Select Model","Select one or more Models",sServerName,aDatabase.Name(nLanguage),Constants.CID_METHODFILTER); 
  
Dialogs.MsgBox(sStr);         
  
if (sStr == ""){ 
     Dialogs.MsgBox("Please select one or more Models"); 
}else{ 
      
    var arr = sStr.split(";"); 
      
    Dialogs.MsgBox(arr.length + " Models selected"); 
      
    for(var i=0; i<arr.length; i++) { 
        var oModel = aDatabase.FindOID(arr[i]);  
          
        if (oModel.KindNum()==Constants.CID_MODEL)  
            Dialogs.MsgBox(oModel.Name(nLanguage) + "(" + oModel.Type() + ")");  
    } 
  
}

Please advise, thx.

Francois

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