GetParentFamilies

Description

Returns an EntityDefs object containing the Entity types in all Families that the EntityDef is a member of.

This method can be used to find out what families a particular EntityDef is a member of, which can be more than one family. If the current EntityDef is not a member of any family, the resulting EntityDefs collection is empty.

Note: This method became available in version 7.1.

Syntax

VBScript


entitydef.GetParentFamilies 

Perl


$entitydef->GetParentFamilies(); 
Identifier
Description
entitydef
An EntityDef object corresponding to a record type in a schema.
Return value
For Visual Basic, a Variant containing an Array of EntityDef objects is returned. If there are no members, the return value is an Empty Variant. For Perl, an EntityDefs Object collection is returned.