When i save workItem for the first time, I'm using TeamFoundationRequestContext to see values of some fields and do some validation.
Also i need to check AreaPath, but in RequestContext there is only areaId comes. So, maybe there is a TFS API to get AreaPath as string using Area ID. Thanks
You can simply get the Area Path by creating a query like:
Then select Area Path from query result.
Or you can query Area Path field for a work item with API:
TfsTeamProjectCollection tfs = new TfsTeamProjectCollection(new Uri("URL"));
tfs.EnsureAuthenticated();
WorkItemStore workitemstore = tfs.GetService<WorkItemStore>();
var wr = workitemstore.GetWorkItem(ID);
foreach(Field f in wr.Fields)
{
if (f.Name == "Area Path")
{
Console.WriteLine(f.Value);
}
}
There isn't any easy way to get Area Path via Area ID.
The method you may use is query the Area Path via Area ID from SQL Database, however accessing to TFS SQL Database directly is not recommended.
And if you are using TFS2015, you can also use Rest API to get the node information. The information include the Area ID, you can then search the Area ID in it.
There are several ways to enumerate areas using the API:
This link describes accessing the areas using Project.AreaRootNodes (section 4).
This link describes enumerating the areas using the underlying XML structure.
The first approach returns a Node object that has both an Id property as a Path property, so you can map these.
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I have created custom user property in Outlook called "Ownership". When someone from the team claim ownership of an email, person's name is saved as its value.
My question, is there any way to enumerate all the values of this custom property into combo box.
In simple words, get a list of all team members names (whoever has claimed ownership of an email in inbox folder).
I want to do something like this.
Outlook.UserDefinedProperties userDefinedProperties = null;
Outlook.UserDefinedProperty userDefinedProperty = null;
Outlook.MAPIFolder currentFolder = application.ActiveExplorer().CurrentFolder;
mailUserProperties = currentFolder.UserDefinedProperties;
mailUserProperty = mailUserProperties["Ownership"];
// Filling up the combo box
PersonCombo.Items.Add(userDefinedProperty.Value);
I want to use current folder because folder will have all the values while an email can only have one value of the custom property.
If this is not possible, is there any other way to get it done?
Thank you in advance.
There isn't a single query that will return all unique values of a particular named property. The best you can do is search for all items where the property exists (not null), and then build a list of unique values.
I do not think, however, this is a good of storing possible values - it really must be a single source, such as a particular GAL distribution list, or a hidden (associated) message in the folder that stores all possible values in a single property.
Thanks everyone for your input.
At the end, I ended up creating GAL distribution list as Dmitry suggested and used it for my purpose.
I am programmatically setting up a cluster resource (specifically, a Generic Service), using the Windows MI API (Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure).
I can add the service resource just fine. However, my service requires the "Use Network Name for computer name" checkbox to be checked (this is available in the Cluster Manager UI by looking at the Properties for the resource).
I can't figure out how to set this using the MI API. I have searched MSDN and multiple other resources for this without luck. Does anybody know if this is possible? Scripting with Powershell would be fine as well.
I was able to figure this out, after a lot of trial and error, and the discovery of an API bug along the way.
It turns out cluster resource objects have a property called PrivateProperties, which is basically a property bag. Inside, there's a property called UseNetworkName, which corresponds to the checkbox in the UI (and also, the ServiceName property, which is also required for things to work).
The 'wbemtest' tool was invaluable in finding this out. Once you open the resource instance in it, you have to double-click the PrivateProperties property to bring up a dialog which has a "View Embedded" button, which is then what shows you the properties inside. Somehow I had missed this before.
Now, setting this property was yet another pain. Due to what looks like a bug in the API, retrieving the resource instance with CimSession.GetInstance() does not populate property values. This misled me into thinking I had to add the PrivateProperties property and its inner properties myself, which only resulted in lots of cryptic errors.
I finally stumbled upon this old MSDN post about it, where I realized the property is dynamic and automatically set by WMI. So, in the end, all you have to do is know how to get the property bag using CimSession.QueryInstances(), so you can then set the inner properties like any other property.
This is what the whole thing looks like (I ommitted the code for adding the resource):
using (var session = CimSession.Create("YOUR_CLUSTER", new DComSessionOptions()))
{
// This query finds the newly created resource and fills in the
// private props we'll change. We have to do a manual WQL query
// because CimSession.GetInstance doesn't populate prop values.
var query =
"SELECT PrivateProperties FROM MSCluster_Resource WHERE Id=\"{YOUR-RES-GUID}\"";
// Lookup the resource. For some reason QueryInstances does not like
// the namespace in the regular form - it must be exactly like this
// for the call to work!
var res = session.QueryInstances(#"root/mscluster", "WQL", query).First();
// Add net name dependency so setting UseNetworkName works.
session.InvokeMethod(
res,
"AddDependency",
new CimMethodParametersCollection
{
CimMethodParameter.Create(
"Resource", "YOUR_NET_NAME_HERE", CimFlags.Parameter)
});
// Get private prop bag and set our props.
var privProps =
(CimInstance)res.CimInstanceProperties["PrivateProperties"].Value;
privProps.CimInstanceProperties["ServiceName"].Value = "YOUR_SVC_HERE";
privProps.CimInstanceProperties["UseNetworkName"].Value = 1;
// Persist the changes.
session.ModifyInstance(#"\root\mscluster", res);
}
Note how the quirks in the API make things more complicated than they should be: QueryInstances expects the namespace in a special way, and also, if you don't add the network name dependency first, setting private properties fails silently.
Finally, I also figured out how to set this through PowerShell. You have to use the Set-ClusterParameter command, see this other answer for the full info.
I am trying to list the view template’s properties so we can compare them with another old template.
For example what model elements are hidden or have overrides in a given template or which Revit links have been hidden or overridden in a given template.
View Template
(https://www.google.com/search?q=view+template+revit&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS770US770&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjLndrd2cTbAhVESq0KHX1cAPwQ_AUICygC&biw=1536&bih=824#imgrc=Q0v-pV7Nxl4kfM:)
I’m looking to devise a View Template Compare tool and access to the owner and creator of them.
public void ApplyViewTemplateToActiveView()
{
Document doc = this.ActiveUIDocument.Document;
View viewTemplate = (from v in new FilteredElementCollector(doc)
.OfClass(typeof(View))
.Cast<View>()
where v.IsTemplate == true && v.Name == "MyViewTemplate"
select v)
.First();
using (Transaction t = new Transaction(doc,"Set View Template"))
{
t.Start();
doc.ActiveView.ViewTemplateId = viewTemplate.Id;
t.Commit();
}
}
With Revit API you can access with:
GetTemplateParameterIds Method / ViewTemplateId Property
The Revit API exposes almost all the ViewTemplate properties.
For instance this method returns all the Visibility/Graphic Overrides for a specific category:
https://apidocs.co/apps/revit/2019/ed267b82-56be-6e3b-0c6d-4de7df1ed312.htm
The only thing I couldn't get for a ViewTemplate are the "includes", but all the rest seems to be there.
Update:
The list or properties "not included" can be retrieved with GetNonControlledTemplateParameterIds().
Yes, and no.
Yes, I guess you can use Forge Model Derivative API to export RVT file and then build a dashboard around the View Templates data. That's assuming that View Templates data actually gets exported when the model is translated. That data is not attached to any geometry so I would not be surprised if it was skipped. The question here is why? This is like renting a 16-wheel truck to move a duffel bag across the street.
No, if your intention is to directly interact with the RVT model. Forge can view it, but to push anything back or request changes to the model, is not available yet. Then again, I am not even sure that the view template data is available via model derivative exports.
This brings me another alternative. Why not just collect the data using Revit API, the standard way and then push it out to a Database and build on top of that? There is no reason to employ Forge for any of that.
Thanks Jeremy, I had dig into your amazing website and also some solution that Konrad post in the Dynamo Forum about this. In Revit seems pretty achievable, you filter the View that is View Template and then extracts these properties, is it correct?.
I am wondering if someone can point me in the right direction with Forge.
Some amazing guys are developing a BQL https://www.retriever.works/.
BQL(Building Query Language) is a query language for buildings, similar to how SQL is a query language for databases. It is fast and flexible. BQL helps improve efficiency for QA/QC (quality assurance and quality control), and building data extraction without leaving Revit. I am also trying these and I would like to understand if there are some works where I could start with Forge next week about this.
I have been spending time on excel power query in the past two days but did not figure out how to fetch facebook userid if i have the username.
For instance, if I have the username zuck OR
the profile url https://www.facebook.com/zuck
using any of the above, is it possible to find the uid (facebook numeric id). In this example, the ID is 4
Somewhat similar to what http://findmyfbid.com does, I want to find out if it is possible with excel power query.
Thanks
Looking around the Power Query Facebook connector and the Facebook Graph API reference I can't find any obvious way to look up user id's from the username.
http://findmyfbid.com/failure indicates that a search engine had to index the public usernames in order to find the id. You can open a page like https://www.facebook.com/Code.org/ in your browser and muck through the HTML and find the username yourself, assuming the page is still public.
On the other hand, findmyfbid.com has already solved this problem. Here's how to query against their website directly using a custom Power Query function FindId:
let
// Assume you've already URL-encoded the id
FindId = (id as text) as text =>
let
Source = Web.Contents("http://findmyfbid.com/", [
Content = Text.ToBinary("url=" & id),
Headers = [#"Content-Type"= "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"]
]),
// Web.Page can't POST directly, so force Web.Contents to execute the POST
WebPage = Web.Page(Binary.Buffer(Source)),
// Hopefully findmyfbid.com doesn't change their HTML layout
DrillDown = WebPage[Data]{0}
{[Name="HTML"]}[Children]
{[Name="BODY"]}[Children]
{[Name="DIV"]}[Children]
{[Name="DIV"]}[Children]
{[Name="CODE"]}[Children]
{[Kind="Text"]}[Text]
in
DrillDown,
ExampleCodeOrg = FindId("code.org")
in
ExampleCodeOrg
And you find that Code.org has an Id of 309754825787494.
I'm building a web service for a client that pulls data from the Sitefinity CMS. The problem is they want to pass in a Guid for the service and receive the info about this item. No problem except I only have been able to locate the "live" Guid for one Item (and that was by combing through the HTML in the back end).
I was going to look at the tables in SQL Server but I'm not sure which table to look at. The content items have several tables all related of course and there isn't any documentation on how to look at this. I can find plenty of documentation on querying the master Guid, but no place to find it.
Oh, and these are custom content types built by the Module Builder.
Any Help would be SOOOOO appreciated!
var master = DynamicModuleManager.GetManager().Lifecycle.GetMaster(<liveGuidHere>);
One of the biggest consumers of Sitefinity webservices is Sitefinity. The best place to start looking for that guid is to take a look at what web service calls are being made when you pull up your custom content item list in the backend. I used the chrome developer tools and check in the network tab.
One I found for a stores module made with module builder was something to the effect of http://www.testsite.com/Sitefinity/Services/DynamicModules/Data.svc/?managerType=Telerik.Sitefinity.DynamicModules.DynamicModuleManager&providerName=OpenAccessProvider&itemType=Telerik.Sitefinity.DynamicTypes.Model.Stores.Store&provider=OpenAccessProvider&sortExpression=LastModified%20DESC&skip=0&take=50
The json this returns is a list of all the masters with their ids (note in the list that the content items all have have a status of 0) http://www.sitefinity.com/documentation/documentationarticles/developers-guide/sitefinity-essentials/modules/content-lifecycle
When you go to Administration / Module Builder / Your Module, you will see a link to the API on the top right corner.
This link goes to a page full of API examples for your particular module which is kind of cool.
Basically you would have to find your item first using LINQ and the GetValue extension method.
Once you have the item you can get its ID or any other property.
using Telerik.Sitefinity.Utilities.TypeConverters;
using Telerik.Sitefinity.DynamicModules;
using Telerik.Sitefinity.Model;
....
var mgr = DynamicModuleManager.GetManager();
var countrymasters = from ctry in mgr.GetDataItems(TypeResolutionService.ResolveType("Telerik.Sitefinity.DynamicTypes.Model.Destinations.Destination"))
where ctry.GetValue<string>("culture") == siteid &&
(ctry.Status == Telerik.Sitefinity.GenericContent.Model.ContentLifecycleStatus.Live && ctry.Visible == true)
select new
{
airport_cd = ctry.GetValue<string>("airport_cd"),
country_master_cd = ctry.GetValue<string>("country_master_cd")
};