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Enterprise Architect => Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools => Topic started by: Andrew Warner on February 16, 2010, 03:42:37 pm

Title: Add MDG tech tagged value to an element in script
Post by: Andrew Warner on February 16, 2010, 03:42:37 pm

Hi all,
I have made some significant changes to some tagged values I want to apply to standard stereotypes (GUIElement items with various stereotypes).
[edit]Oh, and there are lots of them so I don't want to do it manually![/edit]

The synchronize stereotype doesn't work for items not in my profile so I was going to do it in the script but two things happened...or didn't happen, as it happens.

Firstly, I can't figure out how to list the tagged value types for an MDG technology.

Secondly, even if I know its fully qualified tag name I can't seem to find a way to add it via the API in one of the supported scripting languages. I'm using JScript but that's not important.

I tried Element.TaggedValues.AddNew("tagname", "tagvalue"); but that didn't seem to update at all.

Over to you...
Cheers,
Andrew.

Title: Re: Add MDG tech tagged value to an element in scr
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on February 16, 2010, 04:34:00 pm

Hi Andrew,

Try:

Code: [Select]

TagName = "Fred"
TagValue = "a value of some kind"
Set UpsertElementStringTag = Element.TaggedValues.AddNew(TagName, "TaggedValue")
UpsertElementStringTag.Value = TagValue
UpsertElementStringTag.Update
(in VBA)

Don't ask why it works...   I can't even remember where I got it from...

HTH,
Paolo

Title: Re: Add MDG tech tagged value to an element in scr
Post by: Andrew Warner on February 17, 2010, 12:23:52 pm

Thanks Paolo,
that worked nicely. As it turns out I made a preposterous error and it is, in fact, documented under the Collection object reference. It's not all that clear but it is there.

Cheers,
Andrew.
P.S. Now all I have to do is to find the list of tagged value types defined in my MDG technology...

Title: Re: Add MDG tech tagged value to an element in scr
Post by: Frank Horn on February 17, 2010, 05:44:15 pm

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Now all I have to do is to find the list of tagged value types defined in my MDG technology

I don't think there is an API method for this (unless they added it with the latest version). The only way I can think of is browsing the xml file defining the MDG technology  (loading it into a DOM or reading it with an xml parser).