Open Plant Model Server reference out piping with VBA

Question

I don't know if this is in the correct spot or not so if it needs to be moved le me know. 
 What I am trying to see if it is possible, is within open plant model server inside of Microstation you can right click on pipe lines and reference out pipe lines from the server. I am looking to do this via VBA to create system master files for a project. Any help is greatly appreciated!! 
 
 Thanks 
 Mark

JustinasL · Answer

Hmm, and just using higher level of relationship to reference everything from some Unit/Service by just right click on it in the same manner as with pipelines would not accomplish the same goal? You can also select multiple items in the items tree by holding CTRL or SHIFT keys and reference it out in one go as well: 
 
 As for the VBA approach, I believe that would not be easily done. There is no direct key-in to copy out OPMS components by some relationship as the operation is quite complicated. 
 Regards, Justinas

JustinasL · Answer

Let me try to explain on how check-out/ref-out works. 
 Referencing out a query results: 
 So, when you do create a query (search) you do select a class of which type you will be referencing components. So, if you do select a class Pipeline (PIPING_NETWORK_SYSTEM) as a search class, when you do try to reference out that full search it does only reference out classes which were searched for (and in case sub-types were selected it's child classes). As PIPING_COMPONENT is not a child component of a PIPING_NETWORK_SYSTEM class (they just have relationships between them), they are not included into the referenced out components. However you have an option in a tree to browse through relationships and find and retrieve the components you need further down. 
 Referencing System/Unit for a possible refresh later on: 
 As getting back to the original question, the correct way to do this would be to use a root node class in OPMS tree for such a reference out, which by default are Area, Service and Unit. If you use that node to reference out components, and something is changed under that node (new components added to existing pipelines, new pipelines created or deleted, etc.) once that file is reopened and Refresh All command is initiated (Key-in: opms refresh all) all the changes under that specific root node will be updated to your master reference file. 
 If you need some other class to group by, not the default Unit/Area/Service you can mark it to be a root node in supplemental OPMS schema (as I can see from Marks screenshots you already have done that). 
 
 Let me know if you'll need more help with this. 
 Justinas

JustinasL · Answer

Hello Brian, 
 Yes, I actually just saw that these are the same workspaces. I have used the original static queries for UNIT/SERVICE in Project\DataSet\ModelServer folder and created these for your custom associated items. Please, place them into your project workspace and see if it will work fine afterwards. 
 Regards, 
 Justinas