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ExpertRuleBaseComponentRuntimes (Collection)

Represents the collection of ExpertRuleBase (ExpertChecks, ExpertRules, and ExpertRuleSets) components.
This collection can be seen flattened (with Item/Count) or hierarchised (with ShallowItem/ShallowCount).

Be careful : the flattened view can be misleading. For instance, if there are two ExpertChecks with the same name, you will be able to access only one of them (with the methods ExpertRuleBaseComponentRuntimes.Item and ExpertRuleBaseComponentRuntimes.Remove )

Method Index

Item
Returns a RuleBase component using its index or its name from the entire RuleBase collection.
Remove
Removes an Expert component from the Rule Base collection.
ShallowCount
Returns the number of first-level-depth objects in the collection.
ShallowItem
Returns a first-level-depth RuleBase component using its index or its name from the RuleBase collection.
ShallowRemove
Removes an first-level-depth Expert component from the Rule Base collection.

Methods


o Func Item(CATVariant iIndex) As ExpertRuleBaseComponentRuntime
Returns a RuleBase component using its index or its name from the entire RuleBase collection.

If several Expert components have the same name, the use of name is unpredicted.

Parameters:
iIndex
The index or the name of the Rule Base component to retrieve from the collection of Rule Base Components. As a numerics, this index is the rank of the Rule Base Component in the collection. The index of the first component in the collection is 1, and the index of the last component is Count. As a string, it is the name you assigned to the component using the
AnyObject.Name property or when creating the component.
Returns:
The retrieved Rule base component.
Example:
This example retrieves the last component in a RuleSet collection. 
  Dim lastRuleBaseComponent as ExpertRuleBaseComponentRuntime
  Set lastRuleBaseComponent = RuleSet.Item(RuleCollection.Count)
o Sub Remove(CATVariant iIndex)
Removes an Expert component from the Rule Base collection. If the expert component is a RuleSet all the rules, checks and rulesets embedded in the Ruleset will be also removed.

If several Expert components have the same name, the use of name is unpredicted.

Parameters:
iIndex
The index or the name of the component to retrieve from the collection. As a numerics, this index is the rank of the expert component in the collection. The index of the first component in the collection is 1, and the index of the last component is Count. As a string, it is the name you assigned to the component using the
AnyObject.Name property or when creating the Expert component.
Example:
This example removes the Expert component named density from the relations collection. 
 Dim CATDocs As Document
 Set CATDocs   = CATIA.Documents
 Dim partdoc As PartDocument
 Set partdoc   = CATDocs.Add("CATPart")
 Dim part As Part
 Set part      = partdoc.Part
 Set massCheck    = part.Relations.Item("RuleBase").RuleSet.ExpertRuleBaseComponentRuntimes.Remove("density")
o Func ShallowCount() As long
Returns the number of first-level-depth objects in the collection. This is handy to scan the objects in a collection.
Example:
This example retrieves in ObjectNumber the number of objects currently gathered in MyCollection. 
 ObjectNumber = MyCollection.ShallowCount
o Func ShallowItem(CATVariant iIndex) As ExpertRuleBaseComponentRuntime
Returns a first-level-depth RuleBase component using its index or its name from the RuleBase collection.
Parameters:
iIndex
The index or the name of the Rule Base component to retrieve from the collection of Rule Base Components. As a numerics, this index is the rank of the Rule Base Component in the collection. The index of the first component in the collection is 1, and the index of the last component is ShallowCount. As a string, it is the name you assigned to the component using the
AnyObject.Name property or when creating the component.
Returns:
The retrieved Rule base component.
Example:
This example retrieves the last component in a RuleSet collection. 
  Dim lastRuleBaseComponent as ExpertRuleBaseComponentRuntime
  Set lastRuleBaseComponent = RuleSet.ShallowItem(RuleCollection.ShallowCount)
o Sub ShallowRemove(CATVariant iIndex)
Removes an first-level-depth Expert component from the Rule Base collection. If the expert component is a RuleSet all the rules, checks and rulesets embedded in the Ruleset will be also removed.

Parameters:
iIndex
The index or the name of the component to retrieve from the collection. As a numerics, this index is the rank of the expert component in the collection. The index of the first component in the collection is 1, and the index of the last component is ShallowCount. As a string, it is the name you assigned to the component using the
AnyObject.Name property or when creating the Expert component.
Example:
This example removes the Expert component named density from the relations collection. 
 Dim CATDocs As Document
 Set CATDocs   = CATIA.Documents
 Dim partdoc As PartDocument
 Set partdoc   = CATDocs.Add("CATPart")
 Dim part As Part
 Set part      = partdoc.Part
 Set massCheck    = part.Relations.Item("RuleBase").RuleSet.ExpertRuleBaseComponentRuntimes.ShallowRemove("density")

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