RE: Local variable based on queryEntity not refreshing

scristalli — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 11:20:26 GMT

Thank you for the suggestion of looking into the expression rule.
I was treating it as a "black box" performing the query, but I overlooked the fact that it wasn't a plain wrapper of the queryEntity: it used local variables inside to cast the results of the queryEntity to a CDT.
I had even a wrong mental model on how these local variables would behave when including the expression rule inside an interface (I believed the entire expression rule would be always re-evaluated "from scratch", as a "function", when in reality the SAIL of the expression rule simply gets substituted in the SAIL of the interface).
In the end, I set the correct refresh attributes in the local variables inside the expression rule, and now everything is fine.

RE: Local variable based on queryEntity not refreshing

Mike Schmitt — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:00:29 GMT

My first guess here would be that you need to make sure the local variable is properly set up to refresh. Can you share any further detail about how "rule!GetAllData()" is set up? Also, have you thought about setting up local!data in such a way that it refreshes on button click without having to manually save a new query result back into it? Such as by using the "refreshOnVarChange" parameter in a!refreshVariable()?