Programming Mechworks PDM > DBWCommandShell > Commands Reference > Selection

Description

Activates the Documents Page and selects a document in a list given it's id and type.

Syntax

call DBWShell("SelectById DocID DocType")

Parameters

DocID	ID of the document ( use '\|' char for spaces )
DocType	Document types allowed: A P D G 0 (zero)

Remarks

Usually document Id and document type are stored in a single variable.
More, the document Id has to be in a specific format: spaces must be replaced by "|".
As a result the single variable containing both values has to be in the following format:

"The|document|id P"

Please note that between the last word of document id and the document type there is a space.

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Example

'Select the main assembly in the documents Page ( use '|' char for spaces )

docId = "Adjustement|knob|(spinkler) P"
call DBWShell( "SelectById " & docId )
if (okDBW = False) then exit sub