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Guido_Guizzi
Ideator II
4 years ago

I have in an itemtype a Foreign property and the referred property is a foreign property in another itemtype. In the form of the itemtype the data source results undefined. How can I resolve?

I have the nested property  prop1 then cannot see in form.

How Can I resolve?

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  • Hi Guido,

    not sure if multiple nested foreign properties can work at all.

    A foreign property is just a link to another property. The property itself doesn´t store any information and is empty in the database. When you now reference to this "empty" property, Innovator will not see any data. But I have to admit that I never have tried this one on my own.

    As alternative you maybe can use the Federated DataType and use a Method to populate the data. 

  • Out of interest I made a quick test in my Innovator 12.

    I added a foreign property "test" in Manufacturer Part to link a property from Manufacturer to Manufacturer Part.

    Then I added a foreign property in Part AML to link the "test" property from Manufacturer Part into "Part AML". This one worked for me!

      • Guido_Guizzi's avatar
        Guido_Guizzi
        Ideator II

        If I use nash, I can retrieve the correct value of prop1, but in the form, it doesn't show the original List of ItemType "ItemType3"  of the example