Help with Record Type Relationship Error on Save

RE: Help with Record Type Relationship Error on Save

David Moudry — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:38:57 GMT

Thanks Shubham. I’m just a bit confused about the dot notation.

RE: Help with Record Type Relationship Error on Save

David Moudry — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:38:20 GMT

Thanks, Stefan. I think I need to spend more time reviewing the documentation. I’m just a bit confused about the dot notation and cant keep spinning my wheels.

RE: Help with Record Type Relationship Error on Save

Stefan Helzle — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 06:26:48 GMT

You are still using dot-notation for the assigned values. I assume this local is of a record type.

RE: Help with Record Type Relationship Error on Save

David Moudry — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:50:20 GMT

Yikes, it's been a log day :) I just cant seem to get past this:

RE: Help with Record Type Relationship Error on Save

David Moudry — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:50:47 GMT

I'm giving this a try now. Thank you so much for your help—I realize I've been at this for far too long and probably made it more complicated than it needed to be.

RE: Help with Record Type Relationship Error on Save

Jesse Knight — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:11:14 GMT

The record type behind uc2335DisclosureLog is what you'll want (edit - also added the correct way to use a!update()):

a!save(
    ri!record[UC2335 TIN Sweep.uc2335DisclosureLog],
    a!update(
        a!defaultValue(ri!record[UC2335 TIN Sweep.uc2335DisclosureLog], recordType!UC2335 Disclosure Log()),
        {
            UC2335 Disclosure Log.disclosureText,
            UC2335 Disclosure Log.priceImpactIndicator,
        },
        {
             local!draftDisclosures.disclosureText,
             local!draftDisclosures.priceImpactIndicator
        }
    )
)

RE: Help with Record Type Relationship Error on Save

David Moudry — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:08:22 GMT

This was my latest attempt:

RE: Help with Record Type Relationship Error on Save

Shubham Aware — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:51:00 GMT

You’re updating with raw field names instead of the record type field references.

Use recordType!UC2335TinaSweep_uc2335DisclosureLog.fields.<fieldName> in a!update().

RE: Help with Record Type Relationship Error on Save

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:42:32 GMT

Probably yes, but you might have to use the record type constructor

recordType!YourRecordType(

field: value

...

)

RE: Help with Record Type Relationship Error on Save

Jesse Knight — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:27:46 GMT

Hi David,

I've seen this before with folks coming up to speed on records, even if they're veteran Appian developers. The 'base' record you start your referencing from might change depending on context. For a a!save(ri!record{...}, <value>) , your 'base' record will always be the record type of the rule input rather than the record type of the relationship.

For example, say I have a rule input of recordType!Transaction, with a related record 'account', and I want to update 'amount' in the account record, then I would do a!save(ri!record[recordType!Transaction.account.amount], <value>).

Where this can get really confusing for folks new to records - say I wanted to create a "new" record in the related record, using the structure above I would do something like:
a!save(ri!record[recordType!Transaction.account], recordType!Account(<keys/values)).

If you give more context, we can help with the specifics. Cheers.

RE: Help with Record Type Relationship Error on Save

David Moudry — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:26:14 GMT

Could I do this when saving a grid?:

RE: Help with Record Type Relationship Error on Save

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:14:11 GMT

This is the documentation, explaining how to reference records.

https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/25.3/reference-records.html

RE: Help with Record Type Relationship Error on Save

Shubham Aware — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:03:13 GMT

You first try this common fix with this type of generic issue, Change ri!record.fieldName or ri!record[fieldName] to ri!record[recordType!YourRecord.fields.fieldName] -> you must use record type field references.

Still could you share code snippet for better understanding if above basic change will not work.