PTC parameters.....

[BrianKrieger]

I may be missing it, but is there a way in JLink to access the standard
PTC parameters. For example the parameters:



PTC_WM_ITERATION

PTC_WM_LOCATION



Etc. get created once the item gets checked in. There are other
parameters in WC such as Name, Number, etc. I am trying to see if I can
access these through the Pro/E JLink interface. Specifically, I'm
trying to access the Name parameter. For models and drawings it is a
parameter called ptc_common_name. The challenge is that I am trying
this in Diagram (which doesn't have common name).



Any thoughts or work arounds anyone has tried?



Thanks!

Brian Krieger

Peterbilt Motors

[mark_stallard]

Brian -

It's easy to miss this, because JLink is an elaborate hierarchy of
interfaces
and classes:

> I may be missing it, but is there a way in JLink to access the standard
PTC parameters.
> For example the parameters:
>
> PTC_WM_ITERATION
> PTC_WM_LOCATION

If you look at the JLink docs for the class Diagram; you should see this
section:

Methods Inherited from Interface
com.ptc.pfc.pfcModelItem.ParameterOwner
GetParam, CreateParam, ListParams, SelectParam, CreateParamWithUnits,
SelectParameters

That means that Diagram contains a method called "ListParams" which will
give you
a list of parameter objects for your model. Accessing the values of those
parameters
takes much additional work, however. It's best to consult as much example
code as you
can get.

> Specifically, I’m trying to access the Name parameter. For models and
drawings
> it is a parameter called ptc_common_name.

I don't think common name is stored in a model parameter. Both Pro/Toolkit
and
JLink have dedicated functions for this. In JLink, it's

com.ptc.pfc.pfcModel.Model.GetCommonName

Again, Diagram inherits this method from the Model interface.

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[BrianKrieger]

Sweet, Mark! I glossed right over the getCommonName method. And I
should have clarified that the ListParams doesn't list the name (or a
few other default parameters I think). It does list several other WM
params (team, organization, iteration, etc.). In a normal drawing I can
get around it as I can just use &ptc_common_name. But for diagram, it's
not accessible through a note like that.



Thanks again!

BK