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MarkMeader's avatar
MarkMeader
New Contributor III
2 years ago

Workspace assemblies - Call functions from another file within the same assembly

Hi I'm trying to find out the correct way to reference a function in another Workspace assemblies file. For example say i have: 1) XFBR business rule assembly file (ParamHelper.Vb) 2) Dashboard E...
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  • ChristianW's avatar
    ChristianW
    2 years ago

    In version 8, most of the business rules will be located in the same namespace

    Namespace Workspace.__WsNamespacePrefix.__WsAssemblyName

    So to access classes within this namespace, just add

    Imports Workspace.__WsNamespacePrefix.__WsAssemblyName

    to the business rules / files that are not in this namespace

    For example:

    ...
Imports Workspace.__WsNamespacePrefix.__WsAssemblyName

Namespace Workspace.__WsNamespacePrefix.__WsAssemblyName.BusinessRule.DashboardExtender.SolutionHelper
	Public Class MainClass
...

    This works as well in 7.4.x

    So for all files, that are not of dashboard data set, dashboard extender, dashboard xfbr sting or Spreadsheet, business rules equivalent use this namespace.

  • JackLacava's avatar
    JackLacava
    2 years ago

    To save a bit of typing, one can import the whole namespace. For example, assuming you have a class "SomeCustomClass" defined in a DDS called "MyBR":

    Imports Workspace.__WsNamespacePrefix.__WsAssemblyName.BusinessRule.DashboardDataSet.MyBR

...

Dim myObj as SomeCustomClass = new SomeCustomClass

     

ChristianW's avatar
ChristianW
Valued Contributor

In version 8, most of the business rules will be located in the same namespace

Namespace Workspace.__WsNamespacePrefix.__WsAssemblyName

So to access classes within this namespace, just add

Imports Workspace.__WsNamespacePrefix.__WsAssemblyName

to the business rules / files that are not in this namespace

For example:

...
Imports Workspace.__WsNamespacePrefix.__WsAssemblyName

Namespace Workspace.__WsNamespacePrefix.__WsAssemblyName.BusinessRule.DashboardExtender.SolutionHelper
	Public Class MainClass
...

This works as well in 7.4.x

So for all files, that are not of dashboard data set, dashboard extender, dashboard xfbr sting or Spreadsheet, business rules equivalent use this namespace.

ChristianW's avatar
ChristianW
Valued Contributor
2 years ago

For example, if you have a file for the class EntityList

Namespace Workspace.__WsNamespacePrefix.__WsAssemblyName
	Public Class EntityList
...
	End Class
End Namespace

you can do this

...
Imports Workspace.__WsNamespacePrefix.__WsAssemblyName

Namespace Workspace.__WsNamespacePrefix.__WsAssemblyName.BusinessRule.DashboardExtender.SolutionHelper
	Public Class MainClass
		Public Function Main(ByVal si As SessionInfo, ByVal globals As BRGlobals, ByVal api As Object, ByVal args As DashboardExtenderArgs) As Object
			Try
				Dim EntLstHelper As New EntityList()
...