Yep, pretty much what David said.
However, why don't you tell us what you are trying to accomplish and maybe we
can come up with a better solution. There have been others with questions
almost the same as yours where different solutions finally surfaced.
Cheers, Rich Ragan
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Subject: RE: Objects, Containers &Pages
> actually, there's no global way to do this because the publishing rules are
> completely flexible, i.e. the publishing rules you write can use any data you
> specify to determine which objects appear where. So figuring out which objects
> are associated where requires an intimate knowledge of the publishing rules
> being used. Even if you are only interested in the default scheduling rule, it
> would still be a hard question to answer since it is time dependent.
>
> The question would really have to be something like "which objects are
> associated with which containers/pages at which moment in time?"
>
> To answer that I assume you'd have to crack open the stored data about each
> container and evaluate it -- probably not just an afternoon's worth of coding!
> :-)
>
> And even if it was, I can't imagine that the performance would be good enough
> for realtime reporting.
>
> Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
>
> I guess the flip side is that if you are using your own rule and getting this
> data is an important requirement, you could:
>
> 1) Build something that would know how to get the data back out easily or
>
> 2) Build a reporting mechanism so that your rule would update some data store
> (perhaps a set of queriable objects) to record where which objects will be used.
>
> or, if you're lucky, perhaps someone has already built such a reporting tool for
> the default scheduling rule.
>
> david aden
> webworld studios, inc
> www.wwstudios.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stewart Johnston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 10:31 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Objects, Containers &Pages
>
>
> Hi
>
> I am trying to determine how I can determine what containers/pages any given
> object is utilised on. Its part of a search thing. It seems to me I should
> be able to - performance of this is then a subsequent question - any
> feedback on this would be appreciated as well.
>
> Stewart Johnston
>
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