Added webutil object group with JDAPI - adjust the webutil block sequence ?

Question

Hi all,
I'm using the JDAPI to subclass in the webutil object group into Forms in an application. Annoyingly, the webutil block becomes the first block on the Form - which means on some Forms it displays on startup. Is there anyway (programmatically using JDAPI) that I can move the block the end of the block list after I've subclassed in the object group ?
TIA
Steve

Answer 1

Hello,
move
void move(JdapiObject nextObject)
Reorders an object with respect to its siblings in the collection it belongs to. This is similar to using drag and drop in Form Builder to move a block in a list. This method represents a way to do the same thing programmatically. For example, if you want a block appear immediately before Block5 in a list, you pass the object representing Block5 as the nextObject argument.
Pass null to this method to move the object to the end of the list. If the specified object and the next_object do not share the same owner, or do not have the same type, the method throws an exception.
You cannot use this method to move objects between parents. For example, it cannot be used to move an Item from one Block to another. If you want to move an object from one parent to another you will have to do something like:
// to move 'itmA' to be positioned before 'itmB' in block
// 'blkB' (when 'itmA' is in another block)
// copy itmA into a new parent (blkB) using same name
Item newItmA = itmA.clone(blkB, itmA.getName());
newItmA.move(itmB); // move new item relative to itmB
itmA.destroy(); // delete original object
itmA = newItmA;
Parameters:
nextObject - the object next to which the specified object is to be moved.
Throws:
JdapiException - if you attempt to move an object next to an object that does not share the same owner or is not of the same type.
Francois