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A ProjectItem object represents one item in a project tree.

Properties to navigate the object model:

•Application

•Parent

Project tree navigation:

•Count

•Item

•_NewEnum

Project item properties:

•Kind

•Name

•WSDLFile (only available to Web service project items)

•QualifiedName (only available to Web service project items)

Project tree manipulation:

•AddActiveFile (only available to folder items)

•AddFile (only available to folder items)

•CreateFolder (only available to folder items)

•CreateMappingForProject (only available to Web service operations)

•Remove

Document access:

•Open (only available to mapping items and Web service operations)

Code-generation:

•CodeGenSettings_UseDefault

•CodeGenSettings_OutputFolder

•CodeGenSettings_Language

•GenerateCode

•GenerateCodeEx

•GenerateCodeIn

•GenerateCodeInEx

For examples of how to use the properties and methods listed above, see Example: Project Tasks. For operations with Web services, the MapForce Enterprise edition is required.

Properties

Name	Description
_NewEnum	Read-only. This property supports language specific standard enumeration. For examples, see Project.Item or Project._NewEnum.
Application	Read-only. Retrieves the top-level application object.
CodeGenSettings_Language	Gets or sets the language to be used with GenerateCode or Project.GenerateCode. This property is consulted only if CodeGenSettings_UseDefault is set to false.
CodeGenSettings_OutputFolder	Gets or sets the output directory to be used with GenerateCode, GenerateCodeIn, Project.GenerateCode or Project.GenerateCodeIn. This property is consulted only if CodeGenSettings_UseDefault is set to false.
CodeGenSettings_UseDefault	Gets or sets whether output directory and code language are used as defined by either (a) the parent folders, or (b) the project root. This property is used with calls to GenerateCode, GenerateCodeIn, Project.GenerateCode and Project.GenerateCodeIn. If this property is set to false, the values of CodeGenSettings_OutputFolder and CodeGenSettings_Language are used to generate code for this project item.
Count	Read-only. Retrieves the number of children of this project item. See also Item. For examples, see Project.Item or Project._NewEnum.
Item	Read-only. Returns the child at n position of this project item. The index is 1-based (the first index is 1). The largest valid index is ProjectItem.Count. For an alternative, see ProjectItem._NewEnum. For examples, see Project.Item or Project._NewEnum.
Kind	Read-only. Retrieves the kind of the project item. Availability of some properties and the applicability of certain methods is restricted to specific kinds of project items. The description of all methods and properties contains information about these restrictions.
Name	Retrieves or sets the name of a project item. The name of most items is read-only. Exceptions are user-created folders, the names of which can be altered after creation.
Parent	Read-only. Retrieves the project that this item is a child of. Has the same effect as Application.ActiveProject.
QualifiedName	Read-only. Retrieves the qualified name of a Web service item.
WSDLFile	Read-only. Retrieves the file name of the WSDL file defining the Web service that hosts the current project item.

Methods

Name	Description
AddActiveFile	Adds the currently active document to this project item if it is a valid child. Otherwise, the document is added to the Mapping Folder of the project's root.
AddFile	Adds the specified document to this project item if it is a valid child. Otherwise, the document is added to the Mapping Folder of the project's root.
CreateFolder	Creates a new folder as a child of this project item.
CreateMappingForProject	Creates an initial mapping document for a Web service operation and saves it to i_strFileName. When using Project.InsertWebService you can set the i_bGenerateMappings flag to let MapForce automatically generate initial mappings for all ports.
GenerateCode	Generates code for this project item and its children. The code language and output location is determined by CodeGenSettings_UseDefault, CodeGenSettings_Language and CodeGenSettings_OutputFolder. Children of this project item can have their own property settings related to code-generation.
GenerateCodeEx	Generates code for this project item and its children. The code language and output location are determined by CodeGenSettings_UseDefault, CodeGenSettings_Language and CodeGenSettings_OutputFolder. Children of this project item can have their own property settings related to code-generation.
GenerateCodeIn	Generates code for the project item and its children in the specified language. The output location is determined by CodeGenSettings_UseDefault and CodeGenSettings_OutputFolder. Children of this project item can have their own property settings related to code-generation.
GenerateCodeInEx	Generates code for the project item and its children in the specified language. The output location is determined by CodeGenSettings_UseDefault and CodeGenSettings_OutputFolder. Children of this project item can have their own property settings related to code-generation. An object that can be used to iterate through all messages issued by the code generation process is returned. These messages are the same as those shown in the Messages window of MapForce.
Open	Opens the project item as a document or makes the corresponding document the active one, if it is already open. The project item must be a MapForce mapping or, for Enterprise edition only, Web service operation.
Remove	Remove this project item and all its children from the project tree.

Events

Name	Description
OnModifiedFlagChanged	Occurs when the ProjectItem's modification status changes.
OnProjectClosed	This event is triggered when the project is closed. The project object passed into the event handler should not be accessed. The corresponding open event is Application.OnProjectOpened.