On Thursday 23 November 2006 03:36, Mathew Snyder wrote:
> This is beginning to make my head hurt. I assume by loading up a
> CustomField object you mean use the Load subroutine in
> CustomField_Overlay.pm. There is a subroutine called Load that
> checks if an ID or Name is provided. So would it be:
> my $cf_id = RT::CustomField->Load(Name => "Profiles");
>
> This is confusing.
Yes, it is. But it's not too bad, once you get used to the
conventions used in RT.
Create a new CustomField object:
my $cf = RT::CustomField->new($session{CurrentUser});
Load it from a particular custom field (using its name):
$cf->LoadByName(Name => $cf_name);
Now you can ask it to return its id value:
my $cf_id = $cf->Id();
You also correctly found that the RT::CustomField object has a Load()
method that takes either the id (the thing we want, but don't have) or
a name. But that method doesn't take a key value pair -- it just
takes the id or name. So the above $cf->LoadByName(Name => $cf_name)
can be this instead:
$cf->Load($cf_name);
The Load() method will load by name, if its parameter is not an
integer.
--
Garry T. Williams --- 678-370-2438
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