Matt, Is your drop down field set to 'Custom' or 'Linear' values? There must be a bug with 'Custom'? I know it works good with the default 'Linear'.. I am not sure if I used 'Custom' since I have started using the dev studio..
Joe ________________________________ From: LJ LongWing <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, August 9, 2010 10:14:05 AM Subject: Re: Strange behavior when checking the value of a text column on a table field, ARS 7.5 ** Matt, I believe you came across a defect in the Dev Studio…suggest you open a bug with BMC on it…the Dev Studio has been plagued with ‘weird’ run-if qual defects similar to this…they need to fix it at the code level. From:Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Willis Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 6:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Strange behaviour when checking the value of a text column on a table field, ARS 7.5 ** Hi guys, I'm seeing some really strange behaviour, and I'd like to ask if anyone else has seen this. Please bear with me while I describe the forms and fields involved... I have tried Dev Studio 7.5 patch 2, 3, and 6. The form AST:Application (and many others) has a table field - OSRelationship_tbl. This table has a column - colOSRelationship_RelationshipName, field ID 301208100 The table definition uses a sample form - AST:SearchFromBase_Relationship On the sample form, the field 'RelationshipName', referred to by the column above, has a field ID of 260000000 On the form AST:Application, there is also a field with an ID of 260000000 - Acquired Method (label is "Ownership Type"). This field is a selection field. NOW, here's the interesting part... I create an Active Link to check the value of 'colOSRelationship_RelationshipName' and perform some action. The 'Run If Qualification' is: ('colOSRelationship_InstanceID'!= $NULL$) AND ('colOSRelationship_RelationshipName'= "BLAH") When I try to save the AL, I get this error: ERROR (1588): Value specified for selection not one of defined values for this field; (BLAH)., 1588, <AL Name> If I replace the text "BLAH" in my AL with an integer - 0, 1, 2, etc. (using the expression editor) the integer is replaced with the corresponding text value from the selection field 'Acquired Method'. Remember that 'Acquired Method' was the field on the local form with the same field ID as the field on the remote form referred to by the column field I'm checking. So, it seems that when I try to access the column value, Dev Studio locates the field ID on the remote form, and then tries to validate my text against the local field, and since the local field is a selection field, it fails. Sorry for the life story above, and thanks for reading this far. If anyone has seen this, or can reproduce this, or even better fix this, I would love to hear from you. Regards, Matt Willis _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
