AliasHasMatch

Gets a boolean that indicates whether the alias has a match in the set of input files.

It can be helpful to those Standard Import Routine subtasks that are executed before the files were imported.

Compatibility

Available as of IDEA version 9.1.1

Syntax

AliasHasMatch()

Remark

This property is read-only.

Example

Option Explicit

'Importfiles, ISimpleImportFiles, ISimpleImportFile
'Gets a reference to the collection of file descriptors of the current CIR or extension.
Sub Main()
	'Importfiles
	Dim importfiles As Variant
	Set importfiles = SmartContext.ImportFiles
	Dim txt As String
	txt = "Files: "
	Dim onefile As Object   'onefile available properties:  onefile.Alias, .ImportedFileName, .DatabaseId
	For Each onefile In importfiles
		Dim filealias As String
		filealias = onefile.Alias
		txt = txt & " Alias: " & filealias & Chr(13) & Chr(10)

		Dim AliasHasMatch As Boolean
		AliasHasMatch = onefile.AliasHasMatch
		If AliasHasMatch Then
			txt = txt & "The table alias was successfully resolved." & Chr(13) & Chr(10)
		Else
			txt = txt & "The table alias was not successfully resolved." & Chr(13) & Chr(10)
		End If

		Dim databaseHasBadData As Boolean
		databaseHasBadData = onefile.databaseHasBadData
		If databaseHasBadData Then
			txt = txt & "The associated IDEA database has bad data." & Chr(13) & Chr(10)
		Else
			txt = txt & "The associated IDEA database has not bad data." & Chr(13) & Chr(10)
		End If

		Dim databaseIdAsString As String
		databaseIdAsString = onefile.databaseIdAsString
		txt = txt & " DatabaseIdAsString: " & databaseIdAsString & Chr(13) & Chr(10)
		' DatabaseId not available in iss file

		Dim databaseRecordCountAsDouble As Double
		databaseRecordCountAsDouble = onefile.databaseRecordCountAsDouble
		txt = txt & " DatabaseRecordCountAsDouble: " & Str(databaseRecordCountAsDouble) & Chr(13) & Chr(10)

		'DatabaseRecordCount not available in iss file

		Dim importedFilename As String
		importedFilename = onefile.importedFilename
		txt = txt & " ImportedFileName: " & importedFilename & Chr(13) & Chr(10)

		Dim isSelected As Boolean
		isSelected = onefile.isSelected
		' This property make sense to be used in premacro, before the import of the files
		' for example if one of the optional table was not selected to be imported the user can be announced and he can decide if he want to continue the import or not
		If isSelected Then
			txt = txt & "The table was selected to be imported" & Chr(13) & Chr(10)
		Else
			txt = txt & "The table was not selected to be imported" & Chr(13) & Chr(10)
		End If
		Next

		MsgBox txt

		'ISimpleImportFiles
		'Determines whether the collection contains an element with the specified alias: "DataBaseAlias"
		If importfiles.Contains("Alias") Then
			MsgBox"The table with alias ""Alias"" is among the files which could be imported"
		Else
			MsgBox"The table with alias ""Alias"" is not among the files which could be imported"
		End If

		'Gets the number of elements in the collection.
		Dim numberofelements As Long
		numberofelements = importfiles.Count
		MsgBox"The number of the files which could be imported is: " & Str(numberofelements)
		'GetEnumerator - not used in iss file only in c#
		'Gets the object with the specified alias or the specified zero-based index.
		Dim lastfile As Object
		Set lastfile = importfiles.Item(numberofelements - 1)
		MsgBox"LastFile:" & lastfile.importedFilename

End Sub

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