topic Re: need helping searching thru multiple lists... in Inventor Programming Forum

need helping searching thru multiple lists...

leonard.bordian — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 16:51:59 GMT

greetings everyone... i need some help and i'm not sure how to proceed.

below, i have multiple lists...

LIST01 - 143T,L143T,145T,L145T
LIST02 - 182T,L182T,184T,L184T
LIST03 - 213T,L213T,215T,L215T
LIST04 - 254T,256T
LIST05 - 284TS,284T,286TS,286T
LIST06 - 324TS,324T,326TS,326T
LIST07 - 364TS,3645T,364T,365T
LIST08 - 404TS,405TS,404T,405T
LIST09 - 444TS,445TS,444T,445T,445T

and when i have an item selected from a list; eg... Motor = 256T, i need iLogic to search the above lists, then i need iLogic to tell me which list 256T is in...example... MotorList = LIST04

from the value returned, i will have my iLogic go to my Excel file and read the values from 'Sheet4'. i know how i will proceed from here. i'm just not sure how to get the value i'm looking for.

any help is greatly appreciated

thanks

-Leonard

Re: need helping searching thru multiple lists...

frederic.vandenplas — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 16:55:52 GMT

XML is a perfect way to handle this kind of data.

Re: need helping searching thru multiple lists...

leonard.bordian — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 17:02:50 GMT

i'm sorry... i don't know how to write for XML

Re: need helping searching thru multiple lists...

MechMachineMan — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 17:37:15 GMT

More information is required to help you at all.

Why with hold information and keep us guessing, delaying your time until a solution when you can provide us with information up-front?

How much experience do you have with iLogic/programming?

Where is code of things you have tried?

How are the lists stored?

Have you used the iLogic GoExcel feature? (I suggest you try doing this before you report back and get an understanding of how it works).

Where are you returning that value from excel to? A parameter, an expression?

etc...

Re: need helping searching thru multiple lists...

leonard.bordian — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 18:09:59 GMT

i apologize if i wasn't clear or if i didn't supply enough information. as for code, i wasn't sure how to proceed which is why i posted my original post

i tried to keep my original question very simple to avoid any confusing. as for my iLogic experience, i have some but i am not as advanced as most people here.

Motor = 256T ''user selected parameter from another MultiValue.List

here i need to search from the list below for the value = 256T (i don't know what to correctly write in iLogic to do this)

LIST01 = MultiValue.List("143T,L143T,145T,L145T")
LIST02 = MultiValue.List("182T,L182T,184T,L184T")
LIST03 = MultiValue.List("213T,L213T,215T,L215T")
LIST04 = MultiValue.List("254T,256T")
LIST05 = MultiValue.List("284TS,284T,286TS,286T")
LIST06 = MultiValue.List("324TS,324T,326TS,326T")
LIST07 = MultiValue.List("364TS,3645T,364T,365T")
LIST08 = MultiValue.List("404TS,405TS,404T,405T")
LIST09 = MultiValue.List("444TS,445TS,444T,445T,445T")

MotorList = LIST04 (this a parameter the value will be written to from the above search)

once i can get a value for the parameter = MotorList, i can proceed with the other code that i have.

thanks

Re: need helping searching thru multiple lists...

MechMachineMan — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 18:37:48 GMT

So you would be fine with these lists hardcoded into the iLogic/vb.net solution and not fetched from anywhere? (Easiest way, IMO)

If so I would suggest using lists. It will look SOMETHING like below (which is mostly pseudocode)

Sub Main()
    SetClassificationParam("MTL56")
End Sub



Sub SetClassificationParam(oSearchVal As String)

'oList1 will be named "Motor list"
Dim oList1 As New List(of String)
oList1.Add("MTL56")
oList1.Add("MTL72")

Dim oList2 As New List(of String)
oList2.Add("MTL23")
oList2.Add("MTL24")


If oList1.Contains(oSearchVal)
    oReturnParam = "Motor List")
Else if oList2.Contains(oSearchVal)
    oReturnParam = "Chassis List"
End if

Param.Partemer("Classification") = oReturnParam

End Sub

Re: need helping searching thru multiple lists...

leonard.bordian — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 00:02:21 GMT

thank you so much!! this looks like what i may need. i will try this out later and let you know if i can get this to work

i'm sorry for not replying sooner

best regards