I have a Record Related Action Visibility question. I am querying off of a Data

brianc over 8 years ago

I have a Record Related Action Visibility question. I am querying off of a Data Store Entity, and pulling in a field called Status (Type: Text). I am trying to use this Status field to evaluate the Visibility for the Related Action. Example: if( rf!status = "Complete", true, false). I have tried multiple variations of this if statement (toboolean(if( rf!status = "Complete", true, false)) - if( rf!status = "Complete", true(), false()) and many others. Nothing seems to be evaluating to true, causing the visibility of the related action not to appear. I have tried evaluating with a Boolean field I am pulling from the Data Store Entity, and it seems to be working fine. Is there anyway to evaluate a text field to allow visibility to work for a related action?

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0 Tim
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over 8 years ago

I will assume you've confirmed the related action will appear with the standard visibility setting to rule out security or start form issues? Other than that simply rf!status="Completed" should be sufficient to return a Boolean for your condition.
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0 brianc over 8 years ago

Correct Tim. I have confirmed that the related action will show up if visibility =true(). I have also tried the simple expression of rf!status ="Completed", and this did not set the visibility to true even though status was Completed.
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0 hrishikeshd over 8 years ago

Ideally expression (rf!status = "Complete") should work, additional if block is not required, since equality operator in itself returns a boolean
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0 Tim
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over 8 years ago

Have you checked the quality of your data? Could the underlying status field contain any whitespace?
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0 brianc over 8 years ago

The quality of the data has been checked. There are no whitespaces. The value coming from Status is "Completed" and I am comparing it to "Completed".
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0 saravanana over 8 years ago

Try to maintain constants for storing as well retrieve status field. So that you can avoid text comparison. And , no need if, = returns true or false.
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0 hrishikeshd over 8 years ago

Another point to check is whether the loggedInUser trying to view the related action, must not be having security privileges on the process model underlying the related action.
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0 brianc over 8 years ago

Saravanana I am actually using constants to do the compare, I put the text value so people reading would know the value I was pulling.

I have tested viewing the related action with a single user when visibility is =true() and with the expression. The user could see the related action when visibility was set to true, but not with the expression.
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0 saravanana over 8 years ago

If you are using constant, only reason visibility fails would be all records status would be not complete.. we used text comparison in Related Action visibility.
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0 brianc over 8 years ago

Saravanana may you provide a screenshot of your working text comparison?
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