Question on "IS NEW" expression

ckacoroski

My application reads creates new student objects based upon an external table. I have a process that runs and finds all objects in the external table that are new and create objects for these in AwareIM.

On each student object I have rules for each attribute that write a ChangeLog object when the attribute is changed and the student is not new:

If Student.StudentId WAS CHANGED AND NOT(Student IS NEW ) Then

create ChangeLog WITH ChangeLog.Type='Modify',ChangeLog.ObjectNumber=ThisStudent.UidNumber,ChangeLog.Message='StudentID '+OLD_VALUE(Student.StudentId)+' changed to '+Student.StudentId

insert ChangeLog IN Student.ChangeLogs

This seems to work fine for small changes, but when I created 20000 new stduent object via the process, it was random in that some times these rules were fired off even though the student was being created. So I am getting many additional ChangeLogs that I should not.

Any ideas on how to make this consistent so if the Object is being created, the rule really does not fire?

ski

aware_support2

You need to find out when this happens by inspecting the results of evaluation of individual rule conditions in the log viewer. Set the log level to full and do a test run with a few import records.

tford

ski,

Not sure if this applies, but here goes.

It looks like you might want to do different things with new records & changed records. Are you using a 'state' attribute at all to track the state of your BO? I was reading a post yesterday at

ckacoroski

Found the problem. I left a comma out of my create statement so I had

Create Staff with
Staff.attr1 = ExtStaff.attr1,
Staff.attr2 = ExtStaff.attr2,
Staff.attr3 = ExtStaff.attr3
Staff.attr4 = ExtStaff.attr4

The last line was then viewed as a new action after the create statement so of course the "IS NEW" did not apply. Add in the comma and everything works as expected. Damn software did exactly what I told it to do.

tford

ski,

Thanks for posting back with the solution so we can all learn too. 😃

Tom