I must not understand "IN BATCHES OF 1"

[BLOMASKY]

I thought that if I have:

FIND ..... IN BATCHES OF 1
RunSomeProcess


That if there are 2 or more records, it will RunSomeProcess that many times. However, it seems like it restarts this line, so if there are 2 records, RunSomeProcess is run 4 times

What am I doing wrong

Bruce

[BenHayat]

It's 4th of July special. Buy 1 Get 1 Free.

What happens if you do not use Batches? Will you get only 1, the last record?

[kklosson]

RunSomeProcess should be a separate process. Is it?

[BLOMASKY]

Yes, RunSomeProcess is the name of an external process
It seems like when the original process suspends to run the 2nd process and then restarts, it sort of forgets which record it is on, and starts with the 1st record again.

I could be wrong

I have been wrong

(ask my wife!)

Bruce

[johntalbott]

I thought that if I have:

FIND ..... IN BATCHES OF 1
RunSomeProcess


That if there are 2 or more records, it will RunSomeProcess that many times. However, it seems like it restarts this line, so if there are 2 records, RunSomeProcess is run 4 times

What am I doing wrong

Bruce

I can't answer your specific question about the restarts, but ... your code above will work without using Batches of 1.

[RocketRod]

You are passing the instance of the BO to the subprocess right?

Cheers Rod

[rocketman]

Late to this thread but I was just doing some testing last night - for my own education. If you are calling a subprocess after a "FIND" in batches of doesn't seem to matter. Each item in the FIND is passed to the sub-process one at a time. I know this because I was trying to find a way of speeding up a part of my system by saying something like ThisOpeningBalance = ThatClosingBalance.

This failed because there was never a "That" in context (I had a DISPLAY MESSAGE line in the subprocess to check).

From distant times past, I seem to recall that "In Batches of" was simply a mechanism for not tying up the process engine for minutes at a time when there are potentially 000's of transactions in the FIND. Using "IN BATCHES OF (1 or 10 or 100) enables the process engine to pause and allow other processes in the queue to complete

But I could be wrong ....Support??

Hope this helps

[aware_support]

IN BATCHES of 1 puts one of the instances found in the context and continues execution with this instance.

The rest depends on what else is in the Context. From Bruce's previous email it seems that he has two instances of the Order object in the Context already. FIND puts an instance of the Quote there. Then he calls a sub-process and the sub-process is executed with every combination of Order/Quote available in the Context (2 in this case - Order1/Quote1, Order2/Quote1).

Then IN BATCHES OF 1 puts another instance of the Quote object in the context, so it has Order1, Order2, Quote2 and the sub-process is run with the combination of Order1/Quote2, Order2/Quote2 and so on.