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place and replace content center parts using ilogic and forms

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 12:14:25 GMT

Hello everyone,

I am creating a support structure to mount pipes on.
This support consists of standart parts like I-beams and can be edited using a form. So pofile type, lengths and mounting can be chosen.
The support is an "L" shape.
So on the horizontal beam I want to place brackets to mount those pipes in. these brackets exist as custom parts in our content center.
my question is.
Does a code exist to create a list in a form to chose a bracket from the contentlibrary or shout I recreate them as iParts?

Feel free to ask for more information if the situation is not clear.
Thank you in advance!

Lennart

This is the support structure.this is one of the brackets to choose from in our contentcenter.

Re: place and replace content center parts using ilogic and forms

FINET_Laurent — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 12:45:11 GMT

You could create a multivalue text parameter and set the different .ipt files to be imported.

Then on your form you could make a button to add / remove the bracket using:

Components.Add("BracketName",FileNameParameter)

Components.Delete("BracketName")

I whould procede this way..

Have a nice day,

FINET L.

Re: place and replace content center parts using ilogic and forms

J-Camper — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 13:14:55 GMT

If they are all located in the same folder, you could use something like this:

Dim fPath As String = ThisDoc.Path 'For testing puposes. Change to your folder location Dim fNames() As String = System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(fPath, "*.ipt") Dim fNameList As New List(Of String) For Each n As String In fNames fNameList.Add(n.Remove(0,n.LastIndexOf("\")+1)) Next Dim Selection As String = InputListBox("Prompt", fNameList, fNameList.Item(1), Title := "Title", ListName := "File Name List") Dim SelectedFilePath As String = fNames(fNameList.IndexOf(Selection)) MessageBox.Show(SelectedFilePath, "Selected File Path")

Re: place and replace content center parts using ilogic and forms

dutt.thakar — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:33:36 GMT

@Anonymous

Check out this snippet : Components.AddContentCenterPart

This is explicitly used for adding content center library parts using iLogic. See the snap shot, attached also, try to understand what inputs are required when you use this snippet.

Please accept this as solution, if this has answered your question.

Regards,

Dutt Thakar

Re: place and replace content center parts using ilogic and forms

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:48:20 GMT

it worked!

Thank you and have a nice day!