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jbennett0108
New Contributor II
3 years ago

Check to see if an object (lookup table) exists

I am modifying a business rule that uses the entity name to search a similarly named (Entity_Acct_Description) table and return a value.  I want to verify that the table exists before attempting the ...
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ChrisLoran
Valued Contributor
3 years ago

Just a heads-up, if anyone's thinking of using
  brapi.Database.GetCustomDataTable( )
... and then just passing it the name of a standard XF table, the function actually checks if the table name you passed is a standard table or not, and just returns (nothing) if it is a standard XF table.  So you'd either have to use unsupported internal object methods , or regular SQL (and cache the resulting DataTable if calling repeatedly).