GetChildEntity

Description

Returns the Entity object that is the child (duplicate) in a pair of linked Entity objects.

Syntax

Perl


$link->GetChildEntity();

Identifier: Description
link: A Link object, which connects a parent and child Entity object to each other.
Return value: The Entity object that is the child (duplicate).

Example

Perl


$originalID = $entity->GetDisplayName();

if ($entity->HasDuplicates())

 {

   $duplicateLinkList = $entity->GetDuplicates();

   # Find out how many duplicates there
   # are so the for loop can iterate them. 
   # Output the IDs of the parent/child records

   $numdups = $duplicateLinkList->Count();

   for ($x = 0; $x < $numdups ; $x++)

  {

   $duplicateLink = $duplicateLinkList->Item($x);
   $duplicateObj = $duplicateLink->GetChildEntity();
   $duplicateID = $duplicateObj->GetDisplayName();
   $session->OutputDebugString("Parent ID:".$originalID." child
       Id:"$duplicateID);

  }

 }