Questions Re: Batch Programs that FIND more than one record

BLOMASKY

I know this will help me, perhaps it will help others. Please answer the following

1). Assume Process1 has:
FIND BO1 WHERE ... (and 2 rows are returned)
FIND BO2 WHERE ... (and 5 rows are returned)
SomeProcess (Question: How many times does "SomeProcess get run? Will it depend on if BO1 and/or BO2 are selected as input BOs?

2). FIND BO1 Where.... (2 rows are returned)
SomeProcess which does:
BO1.attribute = BO1.relatedRecordAttribute * 2 (Assume each record has different related records, will this work correctly)

3). FIND BO WHERE .... (and more than one record is returned)
SomeProcess (Will some process be run ONCE for each record that is found in BO? Or will it be run once with ALL of the matching records sent to it.)

Thanks
Bruce

aware_support

1) Depends on the input declared for the process. If the input is both objects then the process will be called for each combination of the objects in context. If only one object is declared as input, then as many times as there are instances of this object in the context

2) Assuming that the process takes BO1 as input the process will be called twice for every instance of BO1 independently. BO1.attribute of each instance will be set to BO1.relatedAttribute ... of this instance

3) The process will run once for each found instance independently (see 2) provided that BO is declared as process input

I believe this is covered in the video about Context, but I could be wrong

BLOMASKY

So, the CHILD process controls how many times it's called.

If the parent has:
FIND BOA Where 2 records are found
FIND BOB Where 10 records are returned

then
SomeProcess

If Both are defined as inputs then "SomeProcess" will be called 20 times
If only BOA is defined as an input then it will be called twice
If only BOB is defined as an input then it will be called 10 times

I guess I have to re-watch the CONTEXT video again (and take notes this time!)

But I am confused with:
2). FIND BO1 Where.... (2 rows are returned)
SomeProcess which does:
BO1.attribute = BO1.relatedRecordAttribute * 2 (Assume each record has different related records, will this work correctly)

answer: 2) Assuming that the process takes BO1 as input the process will be called twice for every instance of BO1 independently. BO1.attribute of each instance will be set to BO1.relatedAttribute ... of this instance

Why twice? so if there were 10 records returned from the FIND BO1 would it be called 100 times? is it once for each combination? (damn, starting to get a headache thinking about this.. maybe I need more tequila??)

Bruce

aware_support

It will be called as many times as there are instances of BO1 in the Context. When you said that 2 rows were returned I assumed that there were two instances in the Context...