We use External for Table field and Set Field criteria for lookup of data where the Business processes tend to change a good bit, but I can see several places where I could see using it in a Run-If as well. A well tested data change is easier to implement than a code change at my company since we don't have to adhere to an IT change windows to make a data change.
Paul Campbell | Development Team Lead | TS&D SSBL, A2R WFE, and ESP Remedy Team | Avaya Client Services | | 1145 Sanctuary Parkway Lake View II Suite 110 Alpharetta, GA 30009 | 678-421-5342 Everyone needs deadlines. Even the beavers. They loaf around all summer, but when they are faced with the winter deadline, they work like fury. If we didn’t have deadlines, we’d stagnate. Walt Disney -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Misi Mladoniczky Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 8:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: EXTERNAL in Filter Run-If Hi, That is definitely a good use for it. Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://rrr.se > I agree that you must avoid EXTERNAL. > > I only use it at filters when adding some configurable business rule and I > want to give complete freedom to the user to define when to execute the > rule. For instance we have a priority control at HPD:Help Desk. Check if > the incidence agrees with some conditions and limits impact and > urgency accordingly. At this case I added the EXTERNAL. > > > > > Jose Manuel Huerta > http://theremedyforit.com/ > > > > > On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Misi Mladoniczky <[email protected]> wrote: > >> EXTERNAL() is r > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
