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service GroupAccess
Description provides access to a predefined heterogeneous group of values and nested trees as part of a hierarchy. Provides access to, and information about, its children and descendants viewed either as properties or as contained elements. Groups are static collections within the hierarchy. The number and names of contained elements are fixed in advance and each child may have a different type. This service subsumes two alternate ways of accessing child and descendent elements. These strongly overlap, supporting the basic identity `xGroup.getPropertyValue( aName ) == xGroup.getByName( aName )` . See also GroupElement Child objects of this service generally implement service GroupElement. See also SetAccess A complementary service providing for dynamic homogeneous sets of elements.

Included Services
HierarchyAccess | Description is the basic service for accessing child and descendent nodes using a view of the tree as a container of values and structuring elements.
PropertyHierarchy | Description is the basic service for accessing child and descendent nodes using a view of the tree as a hierarchy of properties and subproperties. This view is meaningful only for a static fragment of the hierarchy Objects' properties may change, but not which properties they have. Therefore, dynamic elements of the hierarchy (see SetAccess ) do not implement service PropertyHierarchy . If such elements occur as properties or subproperties of an implementation, it is not specified whether direct subproperty access using ::com::sun::star::beans::XHierarchicalPropertySet or ::com::sun::star::beans::XMultiHierarchicalPropertySet can be used to access descendants of such elements. Similarly, information about such descendants may not be available from the ::com::sun::star::beans::XHierarchicalPropertySetInfo the implementation provides. If an implementation is part of a read-only view of the hierarchy, all properties and subproperties will be reported as having attribute PropertyAttribute::READONLY set, and attempts to change property values will fail.

Exported Interfaces
::com::sun::star::beans::XPropertyState | [ OPTIONAL ] Description provides access to the state of child elements of an implementation. [optional] This interface should be present, if the hierarchy supports default values for simple (non-object) properties and the group contains such properties. For properties that are objects themselves, the semantic documented for service HierarchyAccess applies.
::com::sun::star::beans::XMultiPropertyStates | [ OPTIONAL ] Description provides access to the states of multiple child elements of an implementation. [optional] This interface should be present, if the hierarchy supports default values for simple (non-object) properties and the group contains such properties. For properties that are objects themselves, the semantic documented for service HierarchyAccess applies.

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