How to get Object ID of type short using ARIS script?

Hi Will,

the method to use is "Item.ObjectID()" which returns the objectID as a string.

If you really need to create an array in JavaScript just use var myArray = new Array()  or the short form, for example if you have 2 ObjOccs (occ1 and occ2), which should be placed in an array:

var myArray = [occ1, occ2]

You should not need to use the Microsoft-specific COM in JavaScript. You can create excel output using the built-in Excel support (Context.createExcelWorkbook(...)).

I hope this helps. Feel free to ask if youo have any furter questions.



BR, Torsten

Hi Torsten,

Thanks for your help and sorry for late to reply.

I have tried the method "Item.ObjectID()" which returns a String, but what I need is object ID of  numeric type.

Maybe I failed to express my problem clearly. Let me try again. Previouse version of ARIS, say ARIS 5.0, supports two types of objectID. The string one looks like "aa####bb##" just the same as what we got by using "Item.ObjectID()"  and the other one is numeric like 183000. The numeric objectID is retrieved through a Microsoft-specific COM object. As my company have decided to update ARIS to version 7.1, I can no longer get the numeric objectID which is critical to our other applications. That's why I have to find the method returning numerci objectID or to find a way to use COM object in ARIS script.

Really appreciate your help.

Regards,

Will

Hi Will,

there is a way to get the old-style OID:

use Item.OID() which returns an array of 4 integers:

[0] is always 0

[1] is the first integer you'll need

[2] is the second integer you'll need

[3] has not been used in ARIS 5

the old OID was a concatenation of value[2] and value[1] using string format "%u%u".

BR,

Torsten

Hi Torsten,

The method works! Thank you so much!

Regards,

Will