IBM Visualization Data Explorer User's Reference

Append

Category

Structuring

Function

Adds one or more specified Objects to an existing Group.

Syntax

group = Append(input, object, id,...);

Inputs

Name	Type	Default	Description
input	Group	(no default)	group to which an object is to be added
object	Object	(no default)	Object to be added
id	scalar or string	(no default)	series position or name of Object
...	...	...	additional object-id pair(s)

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
group	group	the group with Objects added

Functional Details

This module differs from Collect, CollectNamed, CollectMultiGrid, and CollectSeries, which create a new Group with the specified Objects as members. For example, if the input to the module is a series with four members, the output will be a series with four + n members, where n is the number of objects specified.

input	must be a Group. The type of this Group determines the type of the output Group.
object	is an Object to be added as a member to the Group input.
id	specifies additional information to be associated with the appended Object. For a named Group, this could be the name of the member. For a Series, it is the series position value. If input is a series, then id is a required parameter. Otherwise, it is optional.

A single Append module can specify a maximum of 21 object-id pairs. In the user interface, the default number of enabled parameter tabs is two. (Tabs can be added to the module icon and removed with the appropriate ...Input Tab options in the Edit pull-down menu of the VPE.)

Components

All components are propagated to the output.

See Also

 Collect,  CollectMultiGrid,  CollectNamed,  CollectSeries,  Select

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