Yes - I actually had to put in some workflow for my client that has a 
'processing, please wait ..." message, go into a loop to detect that the record 
has been updated by the application service and then refresh the screen for 
them.  If after about 30 seconds it doesn't detect it, I put an alternate 
message up that the approval will be processed momentarily, please refresh your 
screen before making any additional changes.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Roper" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, September 2, 2011 2:19:37 AM
Subject: Re: disable change flag on hidden fields

While I haven't looked at this particular workflow in a while, I've seen that 
issue with CHG as well. As far as I can tell there may be a few things going 
on. The first is that the approval process updates the change and the second is 
that if you have SLAs attached it's going to update some additional fields. I 
*think* the only reason they do that is to immediately reflect the current 
approval or SLA status on the change.

Take this scenario...

I open the change request and go to the approvals tab and approve my change. My 
approval happens to move the change into "Completed" because it's a close down 
approval. This could trigger an SLA to update the ticket. So, if you have the 
ticket open while workflow fires in the background, you'll get the "record has 
been updated" warning if you make any other changes to the record. There are a 
lot of things going on in background and really makes debugging a challenge.

Alternatively, if you have the change open during the approval process and 
someone approves through approval central, you can can get the record updated 
warning as well.

I think it's just a shortcoming in the design because when you offer multiple 
entry points to update a record, toes are going to be stepped on at some point.

Regards,
Mike Roper

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