Check if BOM Dialog is Open

[etckerry]

Hello all,

We have some routines that sort and renumber the BOM in an assembly document according to certain rules, but if the routines are run while the user has the BOM dialog open, they incorrectly renumber and fail to sort the list.

Is there a way to tell if the user has the BOM dialog open, or maybe close it for them prior to running the routine?

Thanks,

Kerry

[jdkriek · Accepted solution]

I haven't see anything exposed to the API for detecting this, but that doesn't mean it's not possible.

Are you working with iLogic, VBA, VB.NET, C# ?

[etckerry]

I'm using VB.NET.

Thanks,

Kerry

[etckerry]

Of course, you're right - I was looking for a solution within the Inventor API, but this is something that is possible to do using Windows API calls.  Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

-Kerry

[pavol_krasnansky]

Hi, try this rule:

Dim oCommandMgr As CommandManager 
oCommandMgr = ThisApplication.CommandManager 
oControlDef = oCommandMgr.ControlDefinitions.Item("AssemblyOpenBOMEditorCmd")
Call oControlDef.Execute2(True)

 This rule closes the BOM editor.