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JonKunert
Contributor II
4 months ago

XFget to retrieve name from description

Is there a function to lookup the name of a member from description.  I've been looking at the functions for a couple hours and cant find anything

  • There is no api function that directly returns a member name from a description.  However you can use api.Members.GetMembersUsingFilter() with a filter of something like "A#Root.DescendantsInclusive.Where(Description = Equity)", which will return a list of Members matching that filter.  You would need to figure out what to do if you got zero or more than one matches, as Descriptions are not required to be unique.

     

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  • There is no api function that directly returns a member name from a description.  However you can use api.Members.GetMembersUsingFilter() with a filter of something like "A#Root.DescendantsInclusive.Where(Description = Equity)", which will return a list of Members matching that filter.  You would need to figure out what to do if you got zero or more than one matches, as Descriptions are not required to be unique.

     

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    • JonKunert's avatar
      JonKunert
      Contributor II

      That will work. We dont use the description in multiple places.   Thank you for this 

  • I would venture no as Member Descriptions do not need to be unique so they couldn't be guaranteed to return a specific member. 

    • JonKunert's avatar
      JonKunert
      Contributor II

      Thats what i figured, but was hoping I was wrong

      • SimonHesford's avatar
        SimonHesford
        Contributor

        Yeah, the hours of searching was probably your biggest clue ğŸ˜‰