possible defect in duplicate mechanics

nlarson

I have a process in which the user can select

a record
duplicate a parent record
duplicate the children
change a few values

The rules are follows:

ENTER NEW XNPBO_Goal USING Forward
DUPLICATE Goals
ThatGoals.StartDate=XNPBO_Goal.StartDate
ThatGoals.EndDate=XNPBO_Goal.EndDate
ThatGoals.LastMeasureDate=XNPBO_Goal.StartDate
ThatGoals.Inactive=XNPBO_Goal.Inactive
DUPLICATE ThisGoals.MetricsReference TO ThatGoals.MetricsReference

When a user selects a single goal an starts the process, everything works. If the select two or more goals then the following occurs:

The goal for record Test Goal 1 (parent) does not copy forward
The goal for record Test Goal 2 (parent) is copied forward to Test Goal 3
The metrics (children) for record Test Goal 1 are copied forward into Test Goal 3 , which doesn’t correspond.
The metrics (children) for the Test Goal 2 are now gone!

Having reviewed the forum posts to clarify the mechanics (https://www.awareim.com/forum/d/5135>) this still seems like a potentially significant issue since it can leave users confused and mistrustful of the data.
re of.

tford

From the link you mentioned:

2) When you call a process from the rules of another process the second process is run MULTIPLE times - once per every instance of the parameter object in the context.

Are you saying that this is two processes? :

nlarson

no, it's a single process. I will be breaking it into two. The issue is not the process not working as expected the defect (IMHO) is that selecting two options will actually really mess up the data, but there is currently no way to limit the process into to a Max of 1.

nlarson

to clarify the process with one input works perfectly. If two are select then all reference data is corrupted. There is no way to limit the use from selecting two inputs.