Custom attribute

by Mr. Vladimir Bis in group ARIS Support
Posted: 2012-02-20
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Hi all,

I created new custom attribute (in 7.1.0 version) and there is no API name and no original name. How can I set this?

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by Mr. Misha Akopov on Tue, 2012/02/21 - 1:26pm

Hi Mr. Vladimir,

I've created many custom attributes, but either don't know how to set API name, Original name you can set with RENAME .

By the way, why do you want the API name ? For reports ? I use TypeNumber in this case ..

by Mr. Vladimir Bis on Tue, 2012/02/21 - 2:39pm

Hi Misha,

yes, I want to use API name in report, it's better to see for example Constants.OT_ORG_UNIT, but you are right, TypeNumber is OK.

by Mr. Misha Akopov on Tue, 2012/02/21 - 3:29pm

Mr. Vladimir Bis

By the way, using TypeNumber of custom attribute is not a good idea :). Unfortunately in Aris , when you restart the server , the TypeNumber values of custom attributes are changing and your report becomes useless... I had this problem recently when my reports became invalid after restarting and found the following solution :

var objocc=ArisData.getSelectedObjOccs()[0]

var db=ArisData.getActiveDatabase();
var filter=db.ActiveFilter();

attribute=objocc.Attribute(filter.UserDefinedAttributeTypeNum("10106850-3ac3-11e1-4e4f-005056b1005f"), lang).getValue();

"10106850-3ac3-11e1-4e4f-005056b1005f" - is GUID of attribute, it doesn't change !

Hope this will help you

by Mr. Vladimir Bis on Tue, 2012/02/21 - 4:29pm

Yes, this is better solution, thanx.