Selects a set of objects based on given criteria. Searches only non-ambiguous objects given the initial selection.
<select-all-objects
type="group_name"
state="{any | stateless | fully-defined | under-defined | suppressed |
not-updated | updated | obsolete | error | bad-license}"
name-regexp="regular_expression" />Note: It was necessary to "word wrap" the long line of code in the above example.
Attributes
type
Optional. Identifies an object group name or an object type constant as a search criteria. If omitted, the object type is not considered.
Object groups are defined by using the object-group element. Refer to the Standard Object Groups Reference.
Type constants for specific objects (prefixed by "id_") are defined in the script file DSConstants.js.
state
Optional. Specifies an object state as a search criteria. If omitted, the default of "any" is used, meaning that object state is not considered.
States are defined in the script file DSConstants.js.
name-regexp
Optional. Specifies a regular expression of an object's name as a search criteria. For example, "part" matches any object that includes "part" in its name (e.g. "part 2"). If omitted, object names are not considered. See the Microsoft regular expressions reference .
Element Information
| Parents | activate-event, if, and, or, not, then, else |
| Children | None |
| End Tag | No - close element with "/>" |
| Return Value | True if one or more objects meeting the criteria were selected. |