RefId

[FRFR1426]

I need to add IAM and IDW to Vault with FileManager.AddFile but I don't know how to compute the RefId member of the FileAssocParam class like Inventor does. It doesn't not seem to be sequential. I've an IDW file referencing one assembly and the RefId is set to "6" when I add it to Vault. On other assemblies, it is set to "1". How does it work?

There is some info on the CoolOrange web site (http://blog.coolorange.com/2013/07/15/updating-references-with-vault-2014-api/, in the comments) but I don't understand this sentence:

> Finally we realized that the Index array and the OldPath array goes hand in hand, so first OldPath/Reference has first Index, and so on.

What is the Index and the OldPath array? This must be on the Inventor side I think, but where?

[FRFR1426 · Accepted solution]

Ok, I've made some progress. OldPaths and Indices comes from the undocumented method _GetReferenceInfo of ApprenticeServerDocument.

[bradeneuropeArthur · Accepted solution]

Hi @FRFR1426 

Did you find anything else about the meaning of the Refid? Seems that you can also filter with it. But I did not find any sequence in it.

Regards,

[FRFR1426]

You need to open your assembly with ApprenticeServer. Then you call _GetReferenceInfo() on your document:

var server = new ApprenticeServerComponent();
ApprenticeServerDocument document = server.Open("C:\Temp\Foo.iam");
document._GetReferenceInfo(out string _, out string _, out object indices, out object _, 
  out object currentPaths);

You will get two arrays with the same size: indices and currentPaths. 

For example:

object currentPaths = {
  "C:\Temp\A.ipt",
  "C:\Temp\B.ipt"
};
object indices = {
  7,
  3
};

You can match the two: A.ipt has refId = 7 and B.ipt has refId = 3.

[bradeneuropeArthur]

I use this

For Each el In oFileAssocArraylite(0).FileAssocs
el.RefId
next

But I don't see what this actually means...

[Tobias.28]

Is there a way to retrieve this information by the inventor application API?