Assign value to Multiple Allowed attribute

Jhstephenson

I am taking several tables from an existing system and combining them into one BO. In the existing system a person could be entered into each one of multiple tables, ie Agencies, Attorneys, CaseAssistants, Investigators, Judges, Prosecutors, etc...

One of the attributes I have defined in the new BO is called 'Roles', which is set to allow Multiples and linked to the mfParticipantRoles BO.

When I import those tables I would like to specify what its 'Role' value will be.

For example, I have an Agencies table. When I copy that table into my 'Participants' BO I know I want its Role to be 'Agency', which is an instance of my mfParticipantRoles BO.

I have a process that reads from the Agencies BO and creates a new record in my Participants BO, assigning the appropriate attributes from Agencies to Participants.

No problem so far.

But how do a tell the process that I want my Participants.Roles attribute to be whatever the ID is for Agency in the mfParticipants BO?

The reason Participants.Roles is set to allow multiple values is that each Participant could have multiple Roles in the system. They could be any or all of the following: Agency, Attorney, Case Assistant, Judge, Prosecutor, Investigator.

Does any of that make sense?

Jhstephenson

Never mind. I just needed to walk away from my desk for a minute.

All I needed was a...

FIND mfParticipantTypes WHERE mfParticipantTypes.Type='Agency'
Participants.Roles=ThismfParticipantTypes

to my process.

Jaymer

Cool, but I don’t think you need “this” on that assignment statement. FYI
And, if you have a parent process, you might be able to just do that FIND one time and it should still be in context.
Jaymer

Jhstephenson

Thanks Jaymer,

When I tried something similar on a different process without the 'This' it didn't work. But I will try it and see what happens.

Jim

Jhstephenson

It worked without it Jaymer,

Thanks,
Jim

Jaymer

Jim, the “this that and other” voodoo stuff is something that if I need it, I always have to go find an example to try and get it right. I basically never use them.
The only time I need it is if I am like duplicating an object. If I need to duplicate this purchase order so I don’t have to reenter all the PO lines, for example, then i would need it. But for more than 95% of any process in aware I do not use “this”.
Cya, Jaymer