SELECT_ BO and SELECT_REL Clauses for the Expand Businessobject Command

The Expand Businessobject command provides a means of displaying information about the connected business objects. Information contained in the connected business object can be selected as well as data on the relationship that connects the objects.

This command works in a similar manner on the expand command as it does on the print command. The differences are:

  • A list of the selected values, one for each object or relationship that meets the criteria, is presented.
  • The keyword businessobject or relationship must be used with the Select clause before the requested items so that the 3DSpace knows from where the information is to come.

For example:

expand bus Assembly "MTC 1234" C select bus description select relationship id;

The system attempts to produce output for each Select clause input, even if the object does not have a value for it. If this is the case, an empty field is output. For more information, see Select Clause.

When you use the Select clause to expand on both business objects and relationships, business object selectables are always listed before relationship selectables in the output, even if they appear in the opposite order in the select list.