OnBase API Exam: Automation using VB Scripts

[Terry_Vantreese]

' My questions are in the comments.

' Sometimes I like to avoid creating unnecessary variables if I can easily access information that already exists.

Sub Main35()

Dim oApplication = CreateObject("OnBase.Application")

Dim lKeyCount

lKeyCount = oApplication.CurrentDocument.Keywords.Count 'Will this work?

Dim sMessage

Dim oKeyword

Dim lLoop

For lLoop = 0 to lKeyCount - 1

    Set oKeyword = oApplication.CurrentDocument.Keywords.Item(lLoop) 'Can I do this?

    sMessage = sMessage & oKeyword.Name & " = " & oKeyword.Value & vbNewline

End For

MsgBox sMessage, vbInformation + vbOKonly, "Returned Keywords from Document " & oApplication.CurrentDocument.Handle

End Sub

[Timothy_Cosgrif]

Yes, that should work.

Really, any form of looping should work when iterating keywords from a regular for loop to the elusive do/while loop.

Have you run this in a test system to verify that it does what you need it to do?

[Terry_Vantreese]

I do not have an environment to test this in. I copied this source code from a tutorial, but I modified a few lines... in particular, wishing to avoid this:

Dim lVariable

lVariable = Object.Variable

Instead, I would rather just use Object.Variable

Can you clarify that I can do that?

Also I'm still learning how to post articles here and make my posts visible.... I'm glad you found it, and have patience with me until I become an expert in using this forum.

[Terry_Vantreese]

I'm new to the forum, apologies for multiple posts. I would like to learn how to delete a post, though.

[Patrick_Ramser]

I think that may just be a caveat of using Option Explicit (which you aren't using in the above script).

Implicitly creating variables should be fine without all the need to dimension them for what you want to do, I believe. I'm no VB Script expert! So take that with a grain of salt.

Here's an article on w3schools further explaining some of that stuff: http://www.w3schools.com/vbscript/vbscript_variables.asp