Get parent of context item in relationship action

RE: Get parent of context item in relationship action

alaxala — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 11:42:43 GMT

I found the problem. XmlNode.appendChild() moves the node, not copy. And next time the ccItem no longer has the property "source_id" and "source" becomes undefined.

This is final version, I hope )). I also added a check for re-adding a "source_id" property.

if (ccItem) {
	var source = ccItem.selectSingleNode("source_id").cloneNode(true);
	ccItem = aras.getRelatedItem(ccItem);
	if (!ccItem.selectSingleNode("source_id")) ccItem.appendChild(source);
}

If you use item.getProperty you get the string with parent item id. If you use getPropertyItem you get parent item. But with only "type", "keyed_name" attributes and "id" property. It will not have any more properties since they were not in the original "source_id" property.

RE: Get parent of context item in relationship action

Morgan — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 17:19:17 GMT

I think I am a little closer. I have noticed that if I ran the method twice, it runs ok the first time, but fails the second time. If I refresh the parent, it is working fine again. I think I will need to add a refresh into my method. Going to try this.

Also, I am assuming I should be able to reference this property on the subsequent called method via the item.getProperty("source_id") or should I use .getPropertyItem()?

RE: Get parent of context item in relationship action

alaxala — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 08:27:39 GMT

It is very strange. I tried it myself. It works. Maybe you are changing the wrong block. There is a similar section of code above. Here is bigger piece of PE_GetSelectedItems with changes:

if (isRelationship) {
	var parentId = this.getProperty("source_id", "");
	var parentItem = aras.getItemById(sourceItemTypeName, parentId, 0);
	if (parentItem) {
		ccItem = parentItem.selectSingleNode("Relationships/Item[@id='" + idArray[k] + "']");

		//If item isn't cached, get 
		if (!ccItem) {
			ccItem = aras.getItemById(thisType, idArray[k], 0);
		}

		//get related Part
		if (ccItem) {
			var source = ccItem.selectSingleNode("source_id"); // add this
			ccItem = aras.getRelatedItem(ccItem);
			ccItem.appendChild(source);     // and this
		}
	}
}

RE: Get parent of context item in relationship action

Morgan — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 20:34:58 GMT

Thanks for responding again. Even with these changes, the same failure error is presented.

RE: Get parent of context item in relationship action

alaxala — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 10:02:04 GMT

Sorry, I forgot as always that Javascript Item class is not the same as server-side Item class. Try this:

if (ccItem) {
	var source = ccItem.selectSingleNode("source_id");
	ccItem = aras.getRelatedItem(ccItem);
	ccItem.appendChild(source);
}

You get the parent item as "source_id" property.

RE: Get parent of context item in relationship action

Morgan — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 22:05:58 GMT

Thanks for this. I do need both properties however when trying to set a fake property to pass, the PE_GetSelectedItems method fails with the error aras_object: "undefined" : "undefined"

RE: Get parent of context item in relationship action

alaxala — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 06:34:22 GMT

Ok. I understood.

PE_GetSelectedItems returns related items if it called from relationships grid. Well, you can use your own modified version of PE_GetSelectedItems for this action. All you need is comment out lines 84-86 in the original:

if (ccItem) {
	ccItem = aras.getRelatedItem(ccItem);
}

You get the relationship items instead of related items and can use source_id property.

Or, if you need both, you can use fake property:

if (ccItem) {
    var parent = ccItem.getPropertyItem("source_id");
	ccItem = aras.getRelatedItem(ccItem);
	ccItem.setPropertyItem("parent", parent);
}

RE: Get parent of context item in relationship action

Morgan — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 16:55:17 GMT

I thought of this however of the relationship item I am trying to capture the parent of may have multiple parent relationships.

As far as I know, the PE_GetSelectedItems will return the item selected in the grid so I am wondering how to specifically get the parent which is active when I use my action that captures the context item via PE_GetSelectedItems

RE: Get parent of context item in relationship action

alaxala — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 08:22:00 GMT

rItem.getProperty("source_id");

or i misunderstood?