Return value of BrowseArisItems(...)

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

Tags: #macro; #arisscript

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Freddy Barkhuizen on March 31, 2011

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 on April 6, 2011

That's it. Thanks a lot.

Regards,

Maik

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Francois Du Toit on August 13, 2013

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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