Transaction Object


Description

The Transaction object that stands for a single transaction. See the article in the overviews section.

Methods

Name Description
Abort Method that aborts this transaction. This method will fail if this transaction is not the current transaction.
End Method that ends this transaction. This method will fail if this transaction is not the current transaction.
IdentifyForDocumentOpen Identify the document open transaction. This action should precede the end of document open transaction.

Properties

Name Description
Application Returns the top-level parent application object. When used the context of Inventor, an Application object is returned. When used in the context of Apprentice, an ApprenticeServer object is returned.
CheckPoints Gets the enumeration of all of the check points that may be present in this transaction.
ChildTransactions Gets the enumeration of all of the child transactions that this transaction may contain.
DisplayName Gets the display name of this transaction.
Document Gets the affected by this transaction.
HasParentTransaction Gets the Boolean flag indicating if this transaction is a child of another transaction.
Id Gets the unique identifier for this transaction.
MergeWithPrevious Gets and sets whether to merge this transaction with the previously committed transaction.
Parent Property that returns the parent object from whom this object can logically be reached.
ParentTransaction Property that returns the parent transaction, if one exists; else returns a NULL pointer.
State Property that returns a TransactionStateEnum that describes the current state of the transaction.
Type Returns an ObjectTypeEnum indicating this object's type.

Accessed From

CheckPoint.ContainingTransaction, Transaction.ParentTransaction, TransactionManager.CurrentTransaction, TransactionManager.StartTransaction, TransactionManager.StartTransactionForDocumentOpen, TransactionsEnumerator.Item

Samples

Name Description
Using Inventor's error dialog Demonstrates using Inventor's error dialog.
Sketch Lines This sample demonstrates creating lines. It uses all of the various methods to create lines, both singly and as rectangles.

Version

Introduced in version 4