Hi Ted,

On 13 Jan 2016, at 6:49 am, Theodore Petrosky <tedp...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have an Entity with a derived column. Entity Person, real attributes 
> firstName, lastName, derived column fullName firstName || ' ' || lastName.
> 
> the derived column only shows up when I first run the app. when I add new 
> people, the derived column is blank. even login out and back in does nothing. 
> But when I stop the app and relaunch it, the derived column resolves and I 
> see what I expect.

Derived attributes are computed by the database, and so only updated when the 
EO is fetched into memory. To update the derived attribute, you would need to 
cause the EO to be re-fetched from the database.

> 1. should I go back to creating a method on Entity Person fullName that 
> returns a string concatenating first and last names?

Probably, yes.


-- 
Paul Hoadley
http://logicsquad.net/




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