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Morgan
Ideator I
4 years ago
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Get parent of context item in relationship action

Hi all,

I am using an action from a relationship grid which is driven by the PE_GetSelectedItems method. I need to get a handle on the parent item specifically as it looks like "this" returns a collection of all items open when used from this kind of action. 

In my case, I thought to get the parents via relationship however the item selected may have multiple parent items from the same relationship where I need the one this method is specifically called from.

Any help is appreciated. 

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  • alaxala's avatar
    alaxala
    4 years ago

    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.

    [embed:dc8ab71f-3b98-42d9-b0f6-e21e02a0f8e2:43a6d70b-e096-4c95-86b8-eff0e132cebe:type=javascript&text=if%20%28ccItem%29%20%7B%0D%0A%09var%20source%20%3D%20ccItem.selectSingleNode%28%22source_id%22%29.cloneNode%28true%29%3B%0D%0A%09ccItem%20%3D%20aras.getRelatedItem%28ccItem%29%3B%0D%0A%09if%20%28%21ccItem.selectSingleNode%28%22source_id%22%29%29%20ccItem.appendChild%28source%29%3B%0D%0A%7D%0D%0A]

    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.

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    • Morgan's avatar
      Morgan
      Ideator I
      4 years ago

      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

      • alaxala's avatar
        alaxala
        Ideator I
        4 years ago

        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:

        [embed:dc8ab71f-3b98-42d9-b0f6-e21e02a0f8e2:2076afde-13e1-41c8-a113-76bbce0bfbad:type=javascript&text=if%20%28ccItem%29%20%7B%0D%0A%09ccItem%20%3D%20aras.getRelatedItem%28ccItem%29%3B%0D%0A%7D%0D%0A]

        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:

        [embed:dc8ab71f-3b98-42d9-b0f6-e21e02a0f8e2:cbc5cecc-a56f-4dd6-bf50-002ecf6b0f9e:type=javascript&text=if%20%28ccItem%29%20%7B%0D%0A%20%20%20%20var%20parent%20%3D%20ccItem.getPropertyItem%28%22source_id%22%29%3B%0D%0A%09ccItem%20%3D%20aras.getRelatedItem%28ccItem%29%3B%0D%0A%09ccItem.setPropertyItem%28%22parent%22%2C%20parent%29%3B%0D%0A%7D]