Replace diagramobject

[Knut Paulsen]

Hi guys,

Background story: I tend to find lots of actors in various sub-packages that are really one and the same. So, I write a small program that can merge two actors, i.e. move all actor-use case links from one actor to the other, which works fine. Next step is to find all diagrams the obsolete actor is in, which also works fine.

Problem: I have the diagramobject representing the original actor and I have the new actor element. Is it then enough to set the element id of the diagrams object to the element id of the new actor? When I do this and then call Update() on the diagramobject I get a COMException with no message and an HResult of -2147221504

Any ideas?

Cheers
Knut

[qwerty]

Sounds interesting. I would have expected this to work. I'll give it a try.

q.

[Geert Bellekens]

It it enough, I've done the same thing in the past.
But I do seem to remember some issues with the diagramObjects.

I just checked my scripts and I found this snippet

Code: [Select]

dim updateDiagramObjectSQL
'set the element of the diagramObject to the new action
updateDiagramObjectSQL = "update t_diagramobjects set object_id = "& callingActivity.ElementID &" where Diagram_ID = " & diagramObject.DiagramID & " and Object_ID = " & element.ElementID
Repository.Execute updateDiagramObjectSQL
Geert

[qwerty]

I just tried with 1224. Worked with no issue.

q.

[Knut Paulsen]

OK, thanks guys :-)

I'm on 1215. Nice to know that IS supposed to work, so I'll take another look.

cheers
Knut

[Knut Paulsen]

Still on build 1215.

first tried a direct update in the database: work perfectly.
then tried my program again (using the API): worked perfectly.

Yesterday I was at home, today at the office.  Don't know how that can affect this specific functionality.

cheers
Knut

[qwerty]

According to this diagnosis: definitely your home 

q.

[Knut Paulsen]

Yes, probably :-)
But still accessing the exact same database using the exact same code, but of course some network differences.
Will try at home again to see what happens.

cheers
Knut