v9.2 Classifier in Automation Interface not workin

[John Kendall]

We are using v9.2 (and cannot upgrade easily due to deployment model).  I am trying to produce documentation from the model, however the ClassifierName/Type/ID attributes of Elements are not being reurned by the automation interface for Properties (most of whose names are blank).  It seems to work OK for Objects though.  Is this a known issue with this version?  

I have tried on our SQL Server repository as well as on a separate eap repository.

It seems to work OK on 10.0.1004 which I have on my development laptop.

Many thanks

John

[Eve]

Properties (ie. Ports and Parts) don't have a classifier as such. (They aren't an instance even though they are typed.)

Although I can't say it's a "known issue" it wouldn't surprise me if it was a relatively recent improvement to allow the documentation to use the same macros to access the property type.

[John Kendall]

Simon

Thanks for the reply.   I seemto remember that the Classifier attribute used to work in V8.* becuase we used to generate the documentation Ok before we upgraded.  

But if it is the case that it is not meant to work for the reasons you gace, how are you meant to discover what the Type of a property is?  Most modellers just create then with no name with the effect that the RTF generator lists all the components as <anonymous>, with no way to discover the type information.

Best regards

John

[Eve]

If you can't list the type information in your current build then you probably need to tell your modellers to give a more useful name, describe it in the notes... Something.

If you can do it in version 10 then maybe run reports from a single machine running that version.

As for the automation interface, you'll find the property type in MiscData(0) as a guid. You could then look up the name.