Inheritance

[Former Member]

In the Data Manager....Configuration Options, there is a setting for "Show inherited language values in Language Detail tab"

Is there a similar property with the API? I have several langauges and would like to show what is in the main language if there is no entry in the other languages.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

The API's contain no flag for showing inherited languages, but will ALWAYS show values for the languages defined as PRIMARY INHERITANCE in the MDM Console.

Say, for example, that we have a repository supporting English, French, Greek and Portuguese. For French, we define that the primary inheritance languages are English and Greek (in that order).

Via the API we log in with French as the data language (via the Login function). Request a value from some field. If the the "French" value is null, the API will try to retrieve the "English" value, and if this is null then the "Greek" value. The "Portuguese" value will neveer be a candidate for display in French, because it has been defined as SECONDARY inheritance.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Is this true for all tables and fields? In my tests this is only true for attributes.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

This is true for all DATA. You can do a quick experiment to see if works for field and table NAMES too.

Walter

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I didn't have it setup correctly in the Console, I set the primary Inheirtance for Chinese to English and it works

Message was edited by: Mike Malloy