Check if a container has a reference

[Nick Galotti]

I was wondering if anyone knew a way to check if a container is
referencing another container which may or may not be connected to a
page.

[Nick Galotti]

For those curious here is the function I ended up writing:


Function IsReferenced(sPageGUID, sLinkName)
sLinkGUID = GetLinkGUID(sPageGUID, sLinkName)
xmlData = "<IODATA sessionkey=""" & SessionKey & """><TREESEGMENT
action=""gototreereference"" guid=""" & sLinkGUID & """ type=""link"" /
></IODATA>"
xmlData = objIO.ServerExecuteXML(xmlData, sError)
objXMLDOM.LoadXML(xmlData)
If (xmlData = "<IODATA>" & vbCrLf & "</IODATA>") Then
IsNotReferenced = false
Else
IsNotReferenced = true
End If
End Function

[Markus Giesen]

Nice one! Thanks Nick!

[Jian Huang]

Hi Nick,

Thanks for RQL.

Since it is using <TREESEGMENT>, not sure if users with SmartEdit
access only can run it.

Here is an alternative RQL

<ELT action="load" guid="sLINKGUID" />

In the return RQL, within ELT, check attribute islink.

10 means it is referencing something.

For more information, please see 562.htm within the RQL doku/manual.

Best of luck of whatever you are trying to make.

-Jian

[Nick Galotti]

Thanks for the information. We just ran some preliminary tests and it looks like a SmartEdit user is able to run it successfully. I'll still change it to this other tag when I get a chance.

[Arek Gruszowski ( www.enthink.com )]

Have you tried a SmartEdit user that does not have SmartTree access? I
think that one might fail since any Tree Segment RQL calls are usually
associated with SmartTree users only.