Trying to update a form

numberz

I have two BOs, JobSystems and JobSystemItems.
In JobSystems I have an attribute called Height.
In JobSystemItems I have an attribute called Height1

Right now, in JobSystemItems rule, I have:

Find JobSystems WHERE JobSystems.Height=JobSystemItems.Height1 TAKE BEST1
JobSystemItems.Height1=JobSystems.Height

So this works well, meaning, that when I add a height to the Job System field, the height of the Job System Items that are entered afterward are the same height.

But I need an option to update the JobSystemItems.Height1 when JobSystems.Height is changed. I also need a message "Do you want to update the height of all Job System Items?"

Also, can this be included in the current rule I have above? Or do I need to add a new rule?

BTW, these relationships do confuse me and I wish I could 'get it'.
Thank you.

numberz

Please help. I either need help with this and/or I need to be pointed to some place that offers more help with Actions and Functions. The documentation in Awareim isn't enough help for me. Thank you.

hpl123

It takes some time to learn all of this, a tip is to study the sample applications and specifically the rules in the different applications. They cover a lot of different scenarios and is great for learning how to use rules and functions.

Regarding your current question, it is not entirely clear how you have set this up i.e the 2 BOs, the relationships between them and the rules you use but here are some pointers that may help.

If you have a BO and want to update related BO instances i.e your items, if you have these linked to the main BO, you easily update all items by a rule like this:

Bo.Items.Height=123...

Then you can add conditional parts to that e.g:

If Bo.Height WAS CHANGED then
Bo.Items.Height=123...

You ask about using a question and you can't use questions in BO rules as many times BO rules run randomly here and there e.g after changes in BO or related BOs (and the question needs user input i.e answer yes/no i.e it cannot be used). You have different workarounds around this though and which one to use depends on your scenario. The easiest one is using a process to initiate the whole height change and then have a question in the process (processes support questions in most situations) e.g (process actions i.e each rule here are rows in your process):

EDIT Bo USING HeightChangeForm

DISPLAY QUESTION 'Do you want to .....'

If Question.Reply='Yes' then
Bo.Items.Height=Bo.Height
DISPLAY MESSAGE 'Item height(s) changed'
ELSE
DISPLAY MESSAGE 'Item height(s) not changed'

You then have a button/menu item or whatever somewhere that starts this process.

numberz

hpl123, thank you.
Here is an image of the relationship.

What I have problems with is trying to say something in a rule that talks about another BO. I often get the 'Possibly wrong object identifier' issue.

system and system items relate.jpg

numberz

HPL, I've tried some of what you stated here. I keep getting issues with the word 'IF', etc.
Also, the samples are cool but simple it seems.

hpl123

Harry,
It is a bit difficult helping when I don´t know all of the specifics but I would recommend you do the following. Create a test business space and do some tests to try to learn how Aware works e.g you can do the following:

Create test BS.
Create 2 BOs, Bo1 and Bo2 and link Bo2 as multiple allowed and owned by Bo1.
Create a process that creates and links Bo1 and Bo2 e.g create 1 Bo1 and create 10 Bo2s and link Bo2s to Bo1.
Look at the rules I posted in my last post and try to implement them and see how they work etc..

numberz

Thank you HPL