PROTECT not working in object business rule

ddumas

I have a business rule in the ProjectApprovalStatusNote object that is being ignored to protect against a delete when a user that tries to delete a record is not the user that created the record. This rule below should only allow the creator of the record to delete it.

I display a message, and indeed the IDs are not equal. AWARE IM ignores the PROTECT.

Both users are Customer access level, and not Administrators

if ProjectApprovalStatusNote.AddedBy.ID<>LoggedInEmployee.ID then PROTECT ProjectApprovalStatusNote FROM ALL EXCEPT Administrator

RocketRod

So the AddedBy attribute is a reference as you coded it as AddedBy.ID?

ddumas

RocketRod wrote
So the AddedBy attribute is a reference as you coded it as AddedBy.ID?

AddedBy is an attribute of type Employee. Employee is a member of the SystemUser group. I have tried the statement with and without the .ID, and results are the same.

Maybe PROTECT does not guard against a delete? I can code a custom delete operation but was hoping not to have to do that.

aware_support

If you want to protect against delete you are better off specifying the applicability condition for the delete operation