Access to Extended Inverse Collection

[Former Member]

Hi all,

I have a problem to get to the "Extended Inverse Collection" of an process element in a EAM via vbscript.

Before I start to explain my problem: I searched for similiar topics and I found just this one ()  in the BPM environment, but it didn't help me.

What I did so far:

1. I created an extended attribute "EAMProcess" in the Metaclass Process in the BPM-Model

2. I created a link from a BPM process (Task) to a EAM-Process via the extended attribute "EAMProcess"

3. In the Dependencies tab of the EAM process I can see the sub-tab "Extended Inverse Collection" and the link I created before (see screenshot)

4. Now I want to get to this "Extended Inverse Collection" via script

I tried many things like

ExtendedInverseCollections As ObjectCol

RelatedObjects As ObjectCol

DisplayedObjects As ObjectBag

AttachedRequirements As ObjectCol

DiagramSymbols As ObjectCol

RelatedDiagrams As ObjectCol

RelatedNameTerms As ObjectCol

RelatedCodeTerms As ObjectCol

RelatedTerms As ObjectBag

InputLinks As ObjectCol

OutputLinks As ObjectCol

ExtendedCollections As ObjectCol

ExtendedCompositions As ObjectCol

AllExtendedSubObjects As ObjectBag

IncomingTraceabilityLinks As ObjectBag

ExtendedInfluences As ObjectBag

OutgoingTraceabilityLinks As ObjectBag

ExtendedDependencies As ObjectBag

DiagramContainers As ObjectBag

but none of them worked.

Does someone has an idea or a solution, how to get the collection?

Best regards

RS

[former_member200945]

I found a way to get extended inverse collections.

'open bpm

set bpm=openModel("D:\temp\SimthCase\BPM.bpm")

'open eam
set eam=openModel("D:\temp\SimthCase\EAM.eam")
set processes=eam.Processes

for each p in processes

  output p.name

  set shortcuts= p.shortcuts

  for each s in shortcuts 

    output s.replica  

   ' show extended inverse collection name

    output s.dependenciesText

next

next

Here s.dependenciesText  gives you

Extended Inverse Collections:
Extended Collection 'SubProcess_1.EAM_Process'

This tells us that the extended inverse collection is combination of object SubProcess_1 and

EAM_Process

It's easy to get full information about these objects:

This is the code sample:

Set dict = CreateObject ("Scripting.Dictionary")
set bpm=openModel("D:\temp\SimthCase\BPM.bpm")

set processes=bpm.Processes
for each p in processes
  output "BPM Process name: " & p.name
  set metaExtensions= p.getMetaExtensions(Cls_ExtendedAttributeTargetItem)
  for each m in metaExtensions
      output "ExtendedAttribute Name : " & m.name
      output "ExtendedAttribute Value: " & p.GetExtendedAttributeText(m.name)
  next    
  dict.add p.name, metaExtensions   
next

set eam=openModel("D:\temp\SimthCase\EAM.eam")

set processes=eam.Processes
for each p in processes
  output "EAM process name : " & p.name
  set shortcuts= p.shortcuts
  for each s in shortcuts
    ImportantInfo= s.dependenciestext
    ImportantInfo=replace(ImportantInfo, "Extended Inverse Collections:", "")
    ImportantInfo=replace(ImportantInfo, "'","")
    Pair=split(ImportantInfo, "Extended Collection")
    count=ubound(Pair)
    
    For i=1 to count
      objName=split(Pair(i), ".")
      SubProcessName=objName(0)
      ExtendedAttributeName=objName(1)
      output SubProcessName
      output ExtendedAttributeName
      'Now use dictionary to find SubProcess and its ExtendedAttribute
      'set ExtAttrubteObject=dict.item(subProcessName)
    next   
  next
next

[Former Member]

Hi Phillip,

your answer helped me to find the objects in my workspace and work with them.

But as I mentioned, I found the objects in my workspace (via string comparism). Is there no way to get the diagram (source) objects on a direct way, after finding the right shortcut?

The target object is set: in my example I uploaded, the target object would be the eam process.

What about the source object, the bpm diagram? Functions like "SourceObject" do not work.

Do you have an idea?

Kind regards

RS

[former_member200945]

Hi Royal,

Could you upload  a model sample?

[Former Member]

Hi Phillip,

I attached a EAM and a BPM file, with the addition ".txt".

The BPM sub-process "SubProcess_1" has an extended attribute ("EAM_Process") with a link to the process in the EAM "Process_1".

In the EAM process "Process_1" you can see the in the dependencies tab the extended inverse collection and the information about the link I created. But I can't get to this collection via script.

EAM.eam.txt.zip

BPM.bpm.txt.zip