API, select parent of child that has many parents?

I am trying to write a program that will allow the user to write some
custom property data to an assembly document when the user graphically
selects a component. The problem is that when the user selects the
component they have of course selected the component not the assembly
that the component resides in. And to further complicate the matter
the component will have multiple parents.

Consider a standard desk and we have 50 of these desks with different
people sitting at each desk. We would want to create 50 desk
assemblies all referencing the same desk part file (so single child
with 50 parents), the user while in sw will pick the desk, launch the
program and input data that they want recorded to that particular desk
assembly but I am not sure how via the API we can get a very specific
parent for a child that has many parents.

Anyone have any suggesstions?

Thanks

 

Did you try the "Get Parent Component Example (VB)" in the SW API
Help?

Ken

 

Thanks Ken, I will take a look at that.

In the mean time I think I found another solution, our program is
going allow the user to input some data and most of that data will be
stored in custom properties and two pieces of that data will also
populate some sketch annotations that reside in the assembly. If the
user is trained to select the visible sketch annotation (which resides
at the assembly level and which when selected means that the user has
the assembly selected not the part file) then launch the program the
program can just be coded to write the data directly to the selected
component, which should be the assembly.

I wish I could find more of a "fail safe" way of doing this that is
not dependent on the user. If the user selects the part file rather
than the sketch there will be a problem.


Thanks

 

You could do it easier through a PDM system like DBWorks