API method for "Find in all Diagrams"

[gfranz]

Hello,

So far I haven't found an API counterpart for the context menu function "Find in all Diagrams". Is there one? I can run a search, but maybe there's a easier way to do this.

Thanks
Guido

[Konrad Wieland]

Via the API you can "easily" find out which diagram objects of an element are in which diagram.

Is this not a possibility for you? Or did I misunderstand your question?

Cheers
Konrad

[qwerty]

There is no such direct function. But you can easily write a SQL search that produces the desired results.

q.

[Geert Bellekens]

Guido,

What I do in those circumstances is write an SQL query that returns me the diagramID's and run that using Repository.SQLQuery()
You then need to use the resulting ID's in Repository.GetDiagramByID() to get hold of an instance of those diagram objects.
See https://github.com/GeertBellekens/Enterprise-Architect-Add-in-Framework/blob/master/EAAddinFramework/EAWrappers/ElementWrapper.cs

Code: [Select]

   //returns a list of diagrams that somehow use this element.
    public override HashSet<T> getUsingDiagrams<T>()
    {
        string sqlGetDiagrams = @"select distinct d.Diagram_ID from t_DiagramObjects d
                                  where d.Object_ID = " + this.wrappedElement.ElementID;
        List<UML.Diagrams.Diagram> allDiagrams = this.model.getDiagramsByQuery(sqlGetDiagrams).Cast<UML.Diagrams.Diagram>().ToList(); ; ;
        HashSet<T> returnedDiagrams = new HashSet<T>();
        foreach (UML.Diagrams.Diagram diagram in allDiagrams)
        {
            if (diagram is T)
            {
                T typedDiagram = (T)diagram;
                if (!returnedDiagrams.Contains(typedDiagram))
                {
                    returnedDiagrams.Add(typedDiagram);
                }
            }
        }
        return returnedDiagrams;
    }
Geert

[gfranz]

Thanks a lot, I appreciate your help!