Access document lineage from plugin?

Alex Zwetsloot

• July 12, 2022 10:52

Hi!

Is there a way to access the details of a file's lineage from a plugin? I could not find a way in the API documentation.

Best,

Alex

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  Tom Edwards

  • July 13, 2022 01:15

  Hi Alex,

  The best way to get the lineage for an Annotated Plugin Document is to call APD.getDescendantOperationRecords() and/or APD.getParentOperationRecords(). This will give you a URN that can be used to retrieve an OperationRecordDocument via DocumentUtilities.getDocumentByURN(URN). An OperationRecordDocument contains adjacent parent/child nodes in the lineage tree and can be traversed using any basic tree-traversal algorithm. I would recommend having a read of the documentation and methods for OperationRecordDocument for more details.

  Hope that answers your question,
  Tom

   
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  Alex Zwetsloot

  • July 14, 2022 10:47

  Hi Tom,

  Thanks a lot for the clear response, much appreciated.

  Alex

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