Issue 4551: adding an attribute to the entity group                                                                                                                                                                 (cad-ftf)
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Summary: Our entity groups in Cad Services don't have any form of an
identifier or name that can be retrieved through the interface.
The only returned data is either a list of entities in the group or
 the count.  It makes it difficult to present this information to a
user.

  We might consider adding an attribute to the entity group,
however that means it gets inherited to the layer.

  readonly attribute string native_label;
Resolution: A readonly attribute was added to the EntityGroup interface.
Revised Text: The following attribute was added to the CadFoundation::EntityGroup interface.

      readonly attribute string entity_group_label;
	// a label for this entity group

Attribute and supporting documentation added in section 2.3.4.

Actions taken:
August 30, 2001: received issue
July 5, 2002: closed issue
Discussion: 

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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:50:26 -0700
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A comment:
   Our entity groups in Cad Services don't have any form of an
identifier or name that can be retrieved through the interface.
The only returned data is either a list of entities in the group or
 the count.  It makes it difficult to present this information to a
user.

  We might consider adding an attribute to the entity group,
however that means it gets inherited to the layer.

  readonly attribute string native_label;


Jim Stephens


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Subject: Re: [jcad_services] Telecon notes from 8/23
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At 04:50 PM 8/30/2001 -0700, you wrote:
A comment:
   Our entity groups in Cad Services don't have any form of an
identifier or name that can be retrieved through the interface.
The only returned data is either a list of entities in the group or
 the count.  It makes it difficult to present this information to a
user.

  We might consider adding an attribute to the entity group,
however that means it gets inherited to the layer.

We could also add Attributable inheritance to the EntityGroup
interface. But, I would prefer a slight modification of Jim's
suggestion:

readonly attribute string group_native_label;

I think this minor modification clarifies the attribute.


  readonly attribute string native_label;


Jim Stephens

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Russ Claus
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