Still failing to understand processes

rocketman

It should be a simple thing - but I've wasted three days on this and am no further forward.

When my duty clerks signs in, I want them to see the current day's flying sheet if it has been already started (a session may time out in between flights if it's not a busy day on the airfield.) if no flying sheet exists (ie the start of the day) I want them to enter an new sheet.

I have a process which has two rules and a failure rule

FIND FlyingSheet WHERE FlyingSheet.SheetDate=current_date
EDIT FlyingSheet USING EditTheDay

On the basis that if there is no flyingsheet with the current date, I assume the rule will fail, I have a failure rule which is

ENTER NEW FlyingSheet WITH FlyingSheet.SheetDate=CURRENT_DATE USING Setuptheday

It seems no matter what I try (if exists, if not exists, find, pick from - I've tried them all) I always end up with a list headed "Select Process input". I've even tried setting my system date to a date where I absolutely know there is a sheet for that date and it still brings up this damn "select process input" list up.

Slowly losing the will to live...... help

aware_support

Here is something to restore your will to live:

Don't use failure rules for something they are not meant to do.
Your process should be rewritten like so:

IF EXISTS FlyingSheet WHERE (FlyingSheet.SheetDate = CURRENT_DATE) THEN
FIND FlyingSheet WHERE ...
EDIT FlyingSheet ...
ELSE
ENTER NEW FlyingSheet ..

rocketman

Nope - didn't work.

Off to bed now - will check back in the morning

exact code is

IF EXISTS FlyingSheet WHERE (FlyingSheet.SheetDate = CURRENT_DATE) THEN FIND FlyingSheet WHERE FlyingSheet.SheetDate=current_date
EDIT FlyingSheet USING EditTheDay
ELSE
ENTER NEW FlyingSheet USING Setuptheday

It is being run from a command in the main area of a visual perspective

It just brings up a list of previous day's sheets and expects me to select one. Build 1166 by the way

aware_support

It should work. Check the LogViewer - it should tell you what's going on.

rocketman

Hmmm ... It seems to still be trying to evaluate a rule that got deleted a couple of sessions ago.

Is there a way to fix this? As you're probably asleeo over there, I'll run an integrity check and check back here in a few hours (have to earn some pennies to live)

rocketman

Latest update. I created a new minor version which got rid of th erogue already deleted rule but the problem still persists.

The process seems to get suspended - waiting for input - on a pink coloured line with a yellow exclamation mark symbol which says

"Adding action ENTER NEW Flyingsheet using Setuptheday" to the agenda"

So the rule has been evaluated ok and once I have selected a prior day's sheet from the list that appears, the process continues to completion, allowing me to (correctly) enter a new sheet dsespite having just selected a prior days sheet as th eprocess input.

So I'm kinda stuck.

I seem to recall a recent post saying "Enter New" from a process wasn't working - and your reply that it had been fixed in the latest build. Could it be there are still some gremlins lurking around?

rocketman

Ps .... I should add that the "Edit" part of the processw isn't working either. The process for input list still apeared - this time with the latest day's sheet in it. Once selected, the rule evaluates correctly and I am taken to the latest daily sheet to continue working

tford

rocketman,

Not sure what's going on, but I put together a test bsv using your rule & it works fine. I'll email you the bsv.

rocketman

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the BSV. It worked - and so does mine now. The difference between the two was that on the general tab on my process - middle section - "Process Input" I had moved my Flyingsheet from the "Available" column to the "For this Process" column. You hadn't in your test BSV.

As soon as I removed that entry mine worked as it was supposed to.

So now I just have to try to understand what that bit of the Process setup is actually saying. When to use it and when not.

Thanks again,

Maurice

tford

Maurice,

When you move something to the right in the Process Input area, you are saying that the BO will be somehow be passed as a parameter to this process. In AwareIM terms, that BO will have to be in context. If it is not already in context when the process is executed, AwareIM will automatically prompt the user to select the appropriate instance.

Ways that the context will be formed include:
1) calling the process from a form of that BO
2) from another process that has a FIND that puts the BO in context
3) clicking on a Custom Presentation hyperlink that called the process
etc

rocketman

Hi Tom,

All understood. Thanks for your help and patience. Can crack on and (hopefully) develop some tasty new goodies now.

Maurice (Mo)