Hi Martin,
when central catalog item is not loaded yet, you can't refer to it the same way you refer to internal catalog item ;
in order to get Central catalog items properties for catalog items which were not loaded yet , you need to use class of type CCitem (part of Design Package), below you can see example :
import java.util.Iterator;
import rsdesigner.component.*;
import rsdesigner.design.*;
import rsdesigner.uiextension.Utils;
public class testGetDTItem {
public static void getDT(String value, String intCatalog, String centralCatalog) throws RSDException{
try {
Design currentDesign=Design.getCurrentDesign();
Condition condition = new SimpleCondition("part_number", "eq", value);
Condition[] conditions = {condition};
String dataTableName;
Iterator<PropertySet> result=currentDesign.getDatatables(conditions,Boolean.parseBoolean(intCatalog),Boolean.parseBoolean(centralCatalog));
while (result.hasNext()) {
PropertySet dataTable = result.next();
if (dataTable instanceof Datatable) {
// if DT is part of internal catalog it will be of type Datatable
dataTableName = ((Datatable)dataTable).getName();
Utils.displayTextMessage("Internal catalog DT found, name is : "+ dataTableName);
} else {
// if it is not of type Datatable, it is probably CCitem
dataTableName = ((CCItem)dataTable).getName();
Utils.displayTextMessage("Central Catalog DT found, name is : "+ dataTableName);
}
}
} catch (Exception e) {
Utils.displayTextWarning("fail to get DT");
// TODO: handle exception
}
}
}
this method will search for datatable which has property part_number with given value as defined in value parameter ;
for example if you create custom command which invoke {testGetDTItem.getDT(205204-1,true,true)} - this will look in internal and in Central Catalog for DataTable which has the parameter part_number with value 205204-1 in one of its DataSet ;
Best regards,
Gaby
