How-to get a claim guid

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How-to get a claim guid #33

Closed mwtoews closed 4 years ago

mwtoews commented 5 years ago

The How-to guide describes wdEdit.claim.add, which works wonderfully. However, to add qualifiers and references for this claim, a GUID is required. The How-to shows a const claimGuid declaration, but does not demonstrate how to get the claimGuid for a claim. An example to get this dynamically would be appreciated.

Also, the how-to uses const claimGuid, but uses a different name, guid, in some of the functions. This is possibly an error, as these functions should use claimGuid.

maxlath commented 4 years ago

hi, sorry for the delayed answer, this somehow got out of my radar ^^

but I have some good news!

there is now a section in the documentation on how to get a claim guid (7bf317c)
the variable name claimGuid was removed from the documentation to avoid confusion (e267e08)
but in your use-case, since v4.6.0, maybe you don't need to get the claim guid anymore: qualifiers and references can directly be added from wbEdit.claim.add \o/ (or rather from wbEdit.claim.create as we now prefer to call it)