Automatic RDF Creation

Rodenthal01

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Hi Brian,
I am new in this Forum. It is very helpfull, thank You!
I have got some experience using ACL and IDEA Script. For automatic IDEA import purposes (eg. plain text- or delimited files) I often use RDFCREATOR functions. Unfortunately there are only few information about the procedures into the  RDFCREATORLIB. Do you know, if it is possible to get a better or complete documentation?
kind regards
Roger
 
  

Brian Element Mon, 01/04/2016 - 09:25

Hi Roger and welcome to the site.

Unfortunately IDEA has never shared this type of documentation with the user base.  The best place to look is in the IDEAScript editor and select the Language Browser as it has lots of information on the different functions.  When I am looking for information that might not be in the Language Browser or want to check that it is complete I use the Excel Developer tool as you can go in and see what functions are contained within a dll.  So if I wanted to examine the RDFCREATORLIB I would start visual basic from the developer tab in Excel.  In the Visual Basic development environtment I would select the Tools menu and then Reference, you should see a list of dlls, scroll down and find the IDEA RDFCreator ActiveX Control and click on it, select ok from the Reference dialog.  Now to see what is in this dll select the View menu and then Object Browser.  In the drop down select RDFCREATORLib to see what functions are available to you.

So hope this helps you out a bit.

Brian