Hello, I'm very new!!
Many "actions" in AML require the Item's ID. But I thought it would be useful to perform those actions (such as delete!) without knowing the part's ID. So I was wondering if there was a way to do the following instead:
1) perform a query
2) apply the action to each result
Maybe if there's a way to store the ID's of the query as a 'variable(s)', then using that variable to specify the ID. Something like the following?
<Item type="Part" action = "getIDs"> *getIDs returns a list (called "IDList") of IDs that match the criteria
<name condition = "like">*truck*</name>
</Item>
<Item type="Part" action="Delete" ID=IDList></Item> *Delete all of the parts with 'truck' in the name
I'm guessing there'd have to be some sort of looping involved.
Please let me know if anything similar exists. Am I overextending the capabilities of AML? Is this where I need to start utilizing C#, JS, or VB? My background is in MATLAB so I'm always inclined to define and pass variables to get what I want. Thank you.