Group class

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Group class

Groups are predefined business objects of the class IltGroup that are used to represent a set of network resources grouped logically or geographically. For a general introduction to predefined business classes, see Introducing business objects and data sources.

The IltGroup class defines the following attributes:

Icon —Specifies an image representing the group category:

Name: icon

Value class: IlSerializableImage

Attribute: IltGroup.IconAttribute

Shortcut —Indicates that the network element is only a reference to an existing network element.

Name: shortcut

Value class: ilog.tgo.model.attribute.IltShortcutAttributeType

Attribute: IltNetworkElement.ShortcutAttribute

There are three types of groups characterized by a different shape and defined by the following IltGroup subclasses:

IltPolyGroup,

IltRectGroup, and

IltLinearGroup

For more information, see Group shapes.

You can retrieve the class IltGroup using its GetIlpClass method. You can handle its instances as simple IlpObject instances and set and get its attributes with the generic methods getAttributeValue and setAttributeValue.