Assign Activity to Operations behavior

[dgoetz]

I try adding an activity for all operations of a class using an Add-In.
It works when the function is exited and returns to EA. The Behavior attribute contains the activity's GUID in EA.

But when I read the Behavior attribute later in the Add-In before it is exited, it is empty.

Is there any Update-Refresh trick? I tried element.Methods.Refresh(); element.Update(); and element.Refresh(); without any effect.

Dieter

Code: [Select]

EA.Package package; EA.Element element; // actually assigned in the Add-In

foreach (EA.Method method in element.Methods)
{
EA.Element activity = package.Elements.AddNew("Name", "Actvity"); // add new activity
method.Behavior = activity.ElementGUID;  // assign activity to methods behavior
method.StyleEx = "ShowBeh=1;";
method.Update();
string behavior = method.Behavior;  // behavior contains GUID of new activity -> OK
}
foreach (EA.Method method in element.Methods)
{
string behavior = method.Behavior;   // -> behavior is empty
}

Sparx EA V15.2.1559

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Hi Dieter,

Try saving the ID of the methods, then once you've done the .Update(), retrieve the method via the ID directly from the Repo.

When I was developing Add-Ins, I found EA would "lose its way when dealing with collection based items.  Getting it back again solved the issue.

HTH,
PAolo

[qwerty]

A rare case where you need a Refresh() on the collection between the loops.

q-

[dgoetz]

Hi Paolo,

thanks a lot. It works.

Dieter

Code: [Select]

        EA.Package package; EA.Element element; // actually assigned in the Add-In

foreach (EA.Method method in element.Methods) // maybe replace foreach loop by for loop also
{
EA.Element activity = package.Elements.AddNew("Name", "Actvity"); // add new activity
method.Behavior = activity.ElementGUID;  // assign activity to methods behavior
method.StyleEx = "ShowBeh=1;";
method.Update();
string behavior = method.Behavior;  // behavior contains GUID of new activity -> OK
}
        for (short idx = 0; idx < element.Methods.Count; idx++)
{
                EA.Method elementMethod = this.element.Methods.GetAt(idx);
                EA.Method method = EArepo.GetMethodById(elementMethod.MethodID);

string behavior = method.Behavior;   // behavior contains GUID of new activity -> OK
}