How do I find all of the property names associated with an object definition?

RE: How do I find all of the property names associated with an object definition?

et3ishak — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 20:58:46 GMT

If you look at the wrking code I posted above you will see what I am trying to do, which is mostly done, all I need to do is change the listview column header names to be that of the label instead of the property name

RE: How do I find all of the property names associated with an object definition?

et3ishak — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 20:56:47 GMT

Unfortunately due to security concerns, I cannot, but if you have a working example that simply iterates and displays the property names and values with a messagebox that would be tremendously helpful, I am looking to only access properties and labels of the default Aras Innovator User object....

RE: How do I find all of the property names associated with an object definition?

AJ Sebastian — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 20:48:34 GMT

Could you post an example of the XML which is returned? I recommend testing the AML through nash, and then that way you can know what you'll have to parse using your code.

RE: How do I find all of the property names associated with an object definition?

et3ishak — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 20:38:34 GMT

That didn't quite solve my problem, but it did get me working towards a solution which is partially successful. Now the issue is that I can get all property names, but not the labels... Newest working code below...

I guess part of the answer I was looking for was in the fact that the resultes are embedded into the XML nodes, not that I quite understand that structure yet....

Option Strict On
Option Explicit On
Option Infer Off
Imports Aras.IOM
Imports System.Text
Imports System.Xml
Public Class ArasInnovatorUsers
    Public Connection As HttpServerConnection
    Private Sub ArasInnovatorUsers_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Dim sb1 As New StringBuilder
        Dim dQ As String = Chr(34) ' Double Quotes
        Dim inv As New Innovator(Connection)
        Dim UserPropertyNames As New List(Of String)
        sb1.AppendLine("<AML>")
        sb1.AppendLine("    <Item action='get' type='User' select ='*'>")
        sb1.AppendLine("        <Relationships>")
        sb1.AppendLine("            <Item type='property' action='get' select='*'/>")
        sb1.AppendLine("        </Relationships>")
        sb1.AppendLine("    </Item>")
        sb1.Append("</AML>")
        Dim AML1 As String = sb1.ToString
        Dim aml_1 As Item = inv.applyAML(AML1)
        'Failed attempt to retrieve value, label
        MsgBox(aml_1.getItemByIndex(0).getProperty("value"))
        MsgBox(aml_1.getItemByIndex(0).getProperty("label"))
        For i As Integer = 0 To aml_1.getItemByIndex(0).node.ChildNodes.Count - 1
            'Gets all property names, but not the label...
            UserPropertyNames.Add(aml_1.getItemByIndex(0).node.ChildNodes(i).Name)
        Next
        lstViewArasUsers.Items.Clear()
        lstViewArasUsers.Columns.Clear()
        For Each prop As String In UserPropertyNames
            lstViewArasUsers.Columns.Add(prop)
        Next
        For i As Integer = 0 To aml_1.getItemCount - 1
            Dim user As Item = aml_1.getItemByIndex(i)
            Dim item As ListViewItem = Nothing
            For i2 As Integer = 0 To UserPropertyNames.Count - 1
                Dim prop As String = UserPropertyNames.Item(i2)
                Dim propValue As String = user.getProperty(prop)
                If i2 = 0 Then
                    item = New ListViewItem(propValue)
                Else
                    item.SubItems.Add(propValue)
                End If
            Next
            lstViewArasUsers.Items.Add(item)
        Next
    End Sub
End Class

RE: How do I find all of the property names associated with an object definition?

et3ishak — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:38:02 GMT

Thank you AJ, let me test this and get back to you!

RE: How do I find all of the property names associated with an object definition?

AJ Sebastian — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:24:18 GMT

Hello,

I quickly generated some AML which does the following. I created and tested this using nash in a local instance. You'll need to modify your VB code to create the string, but the end result should look like this:

This AML will take the itemtype specified within the <name> tag and return some basic information about that ItemType, as well as all the value/label combinations for the related properties.