Newbie Help - Changing Relationships

[GertV]

Hi,

I'm quite new to AwareIM so please bare with me if I oversee an obvious solution.

I'm having an object members and an object member category. One member category can have many members but a member can only belong to one category.

Currently all my relations work correctly.

I have a rule defined that says the age of a member is above 60, the member category should change to 'Senior Member'

I have defined the action as members.category.name = 'Senior Member'

When the rule executes I get an error stating that the category 'Senior Member' already exists.

How do I change the member category for this member from 'Normal Member' to 'Senior Member'

Thanks for any help.

Gert.[/i]

[aware_support]

Why are you getting an error that the category already exists? Do you have a rule that checks for the uniqueness of the category?

Please also check the Log Viewer, which displays in detail how Aware IM executes rules - this will help you identify the problem

[GertV]

Yes indeed, I have a rule that checks the uniqueness of the category. I've studied the log and still cannot figure out what I am doing wrong.

As I understand it, my rule sets a new value to the member object. It just needs to link to another categorie. I am not updating the category object, so why does it execute the category uniqueness rule?

Am I doing something wrong or should I change the relationship in a different way?

Regards,

Gert.

[tford]

Not sure why it didn't work, but try a rule something like this:

If Members.Age>60
FIND Category WHERE Category.Name='Senior Member'
Members.Category=Category

[GertV]

Hi tford,

That was a great tip! It worked, thanks very much.

I still don't understand however why the solution I tried didn't work.

Gert.

[BobK]

According to your first post above, your original action was:

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members.category.name = 'Senior Member'

This code will update the name attribute in the current category object that is referenced in the members object. Since a category object already exists with the name attribute set to 'Senior Member', you got the "category 'Senior Member' already exists" error.

[GertV]

Thanks for the explanation Bob. I understand what I did wrong now.