cannot use reference when setting Applicability condition

ddumas

I have an Approval Object, which has an ApprovalNotes (1=>M) attribute presented as a table of items.

In the Presentation for ApprovalNotes attribute of the Approval object , I have defined a Delete operation. In the Operation edit, you can define Applicability, to set a condition for which the operation will be displayed or not. That is great. I was hoping to use that to guard a Delete operation against users that did not actually create the ApprovalNote.

However, if you try to specify a reference to another object (other than the main object, in my case the Approval parent), you get an error message stating that you cannot use a reference in an Applicability condition.

I see this as a shortcoming, as this would be a great spot to apply business rule conditions on displaying the delete operation within a table of items.

aware_support

To get around this you can use shortcuts

ddumas

aware_support wrote
To get around this you can use shortcuts

So In this situation, I cannot use shortcut, as the attribute I need to compare is in the child table of items, and not the main object, so I get the error for any object reference that is not directly part of the parent object.

aware_support

Please read about shortcuts. You need to define a shortcut to the reference object on the main object and then use it in the condition

ddumas

aware_support wrote
Please read about shortcuts. You need to define a shortcut to the reference object on the main object and then use it in the condition

I know - I love shortcuts. My operation condition needs to reference an attribute on the child attribute, so I cannot see how a shortcut can apply here. I will show you.