What is the diff. of the following two WAS CHANGED Rules

BLOMASKY

In the user guide, at the bottom of page 117 (and top of 118-) I see the following 2 rules:

If Account.Transactions WAS CHANGED

and

If Transaction FROM Account.Transactions WAS CHANGED

What is the difference? When would I use one vs. the other?

Thanks

Bruce

BLOMASKY

I ALWAYS find the answer AFTER I post a question!
Is this correct:
IF Customer.Accounts WAS CHANGED that is only triggered if I ADD or REMOVE an item from the list. But its NOT triggered if I edit one of the attributes of the list.

IFAccounts FROM Customer.Accounts WAS CHANGED will be triggered if an element was changed, but NOT triggered if a new item was Added or Deleted from the list?

So, if I want to update the total in the Customer BO, I would have to use BOTH rules?

Is this correct? Is this CLOSE to correct?

Thanks
Bruce

BenHayat

BLOMASKY wrote
color=#BF0000[/color] If Account.Transactions WAS CHANGED
and
color=#BF0000 [/color]If Transaction FROM Account.Transactions WAS CHANGED

1) Is fired when the collection/List (Account.Transactions) was modified (adding or deleting an object in the list)
2) Is Fired when the object (Transaction ) was modified.

To answer your second post, I believe both rules will need to qualify to update the summary.

tford

Like I mentioned in: https://forum.awareim.com/d/8255>

all you need is a rule on the Customer BO like:
Customer.TotalOwed = SUM Invoice.LineTotal where Invoice IN Customer.MyInvoices

You do not need either of the IF's that you refer to.

BLOMASKY

My question Tom, for Performance, don't I want a "RULE" so this does not always execute? There will be 100's of child records. How does Aware know WHEN to run the rule.

tford

My question Tom, for Performance, don't I want a "RULE" so this does not always execute? There will be 100's of child records. How does Aware know WHEN to run the rule.

Perhaps support or someone else can address your performance question. I haven't had a performance issue using rules like this myself.