Moving Elements from one packe to another package

Question

We have Package-A in which we have 10 class elements.We have another Package-B .Now we want to move the elements present in Package-A to Package-B through Addin.How can this be achieved in EA through Addin

Even for moving sub-packages from package-A to package-B is the same thing works

Possible duplicate of [How to move exisiting elements between packages with an EA Addin in c#?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28819597/how-to-move-exisiting-elements-between-packages-with-an-ea-addin-in-c) — Uffe, Sep 20 '16 at 14:36

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 20 '16 at 12:02

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Set the PackageID property for all the class elements with PackageB ID .

sample code somethinglike

foreach(EA.Element classElement in PackageA.elements)
{
    classElement.PackageID = packageb.PackageID : 
    classElement.Update();
}

answered Sep 20 '16 at 12:02

Dah Sra

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Can we move the set of elements at a time. – Manu V Sep 20 '16 at 13:52
@ManuV No you can't move through EA API – Dah Sra Sep 20 '16 at 13:53
Can we move packages also the same way – Manu V Sep 20 '16 at 14:43
@ManuV yes you can – Dah Sra Sep 20 '16 at 14:47

philippeback · Answer 2 · 2016-09-21T08:44:02.863

Here is a way to do it at once without any script, through SQL. Do this in the SQL Scratchpad in EA.

Copy the GUID of the target package in the clipboard, say {61068DDF-335B-4b29-89F8-C54A7000EF6F})

Its package id is the following:

select Package_ID from t_package where ea_guid='{61068DDF-335B-4b29-89F8-C54A7000EF6F}'

Copy the GUID of the source package in the clipboard, say {F3B52DA0-D9E9-4606-BCA0-5D211B73FBE6}.

Its package id is the following:

select Package_ID from t_package where ea_guid='{F3B52DA0-D9E9-4606-BCA0-5D211B73FBE6}'

So, elements in source package are:

select * from t_object where Package_ID=(select Package_ID from t_package where ea_guid='{F3B52DA0-D9E9-4606-BCA0-5D211B73FBE6}')

So, let's make that go to the target.

update t_object 
set Package_ID=(select Package_ID from t_package where ea_guid='{61068DDF-335B-4b29-89F8-C54A7000EF6F}'
where Package_ID=(
select Package_ID from t_package where ea_guid='{F3B52DA0-D9E9-4606-BCA0-5D211B73FBE6}'
)

Should do the trick.

Backup your model first.

For an Add-In, it is just a matter of getting the two GUIDs, and Repository.Execute(theSQLString).

Repository.Execute is not in the doc, but works.

Moving Elements from one packe to another package

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