Refresh Variable Not Refreshing

RE: Refresh Variable Not Refreshing

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:13:05 GMT

I'm pretty unclear what your chain of events is here, but you'll still need to make sure that all DB writes (in the record action process itself as well as any launched Start Process events from that form) are chained through before returning to the original interface.

RE: Refresh Variable Not Refreshing

Carey Kitsunari — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:27:14 GMT

Technically, no. The record action simply calls a UI that allows them to perform other actions. There is a button on there that calls a start process smart service to kick off document regeneration. However, the record action IS activity chained through.

RE: Refresh Variable Not Refreshing

Mike Schmitt — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:12:19 GMT

[quote userid="116303" url="~/discussions/f/general/39861/refresh-variable-not-refreshing/152125"]we need to re-query the table to refresh the variables that we use to determine which rows need regeneration, but as seen above, that is not happening[/quote]

Is the record action process activity-chained all the way through the final DB change(s) that would be expected to get picked up in the refreshed query? If not, then this setup won't work (as the refresh will take place immediately after chaining breaks, and most likely happen before the final DB writes). If you could post an overview screenshot of your process flow, that might help. Certain screenshot tools (i like the freeware "greenshot") allow piecemeal redaction of individual screenshot elements if they contain sensitive info, fwiw.

RE: Refresh Variable Not Refreshing

Carey Kitsunari — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:45:16 GMT

The record action is opened in a dialog.

RE: Refresh Variable Not Refreshing

Carey Kitsunari — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:44:35 GMT

So the process is essentially, Documents are generated and sent to clients to sign > Clients sign when they have time > we upload the signed documents and proceed with more processes.

To prevent documents from sitting in storage for too long, we have an expiration date for each document. However, due to a poor design we need to work around at the moment, we have to query a table to see if the documents were deleted during a cleanup cron job.

So, we have a UI that is calling a record action to regenerate the document. Once the document is regenerated, we can proceed. This is task based, so the user is shown a list of tasks, some of which will have expired docs.

The issue here is, when they call the record action to regenerate the documents, we need to re-query the table to refresh the variables that we use to determine which rows need regeneration, but as seen above, that is not happening. I don't really understand why the local!refresh variable is refreshing, but not the cascading variables. We are not expecting the passed-in RI value to change, just the local variables.

Is there any further details I can provide to assist in a recommendation?

RE: Refresh Variable Not Refreshing

Shubham Aware — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:51:05 GMT

When the record action completes, are you staying on the same interface, or does it navigate away/close a dialog?

RE: Refresh Variable Not Refreshing

Mike Schmitt — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:37:25 GMT

I sometimes use a technique similar to this, but instead of calling "rand()", I would recommend you call "now()" so that you can view the updated timestamp pertaining to the last time the refresh variable updated.

Further, be careful as to whether you're assuming any passed-in RI values might refresh due to the refresh variable (they won't, at least not inherently), as well as the refresh behavior of any expression rules you call (when they contain their own local variables). Aside from those suggestions, I don't know whether we see a complete enough picture of either your setup here, or the resulting behavior, to make many guesses as to the cause of what you're experiencing. I do stand behind @Shubham's earlier suggestion to cascade refreshes - it looks like you've already incorporated that into the example code you posted.

RE: Refresh Variable Not Refreshing

Carey Kitsunari — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:09:42 GMT

I'm not sure I understand the question. I have record actions being called in a gridField, which is properly updating the local!refresh variable. But the cascading variables are not updating.

RE: Refresh Variable Not Refreshing

sumeetk4983 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:06:45 GMT

This might sound odd, but do you have a record action for that page (the entire interface)? I can refresh the local refresh variable using your logic.

RE: Refresh Variable Not Refreshing

Carey Kitsunari — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:39:49 GMT

This doesn't work. I attempted the fix you suggested. I also attempted the following fix to see if I could simply get it to work.

local!refresh: a!refreshVariable(
  value: rand(),
  refreshAfter: "RECORD_ACTION"
),
local!selected_tasks: a!refreshVariable(
  value: a!queryRecordType(...).data,
  refreshOnVarChange: local!refresh
),
local!expired_tasks: a!refreshVariable(
  value: a!forEach(...),
  refreshOnVarChange: local!refresh
)

RE: Refresh Variable Not Refreshing

Shubham Aware — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 01:52:33 GMT

Doesn’t inherently cascade refreshes each dependent variable must declare what triggers it. So link refreshOnVarChange at each layer, ensuring refresh propagation across local!refresh -> local!selected_tasks -> local!expired_tasks.

local!refresh: a!refreshVariable(
  value: rand(),
  refreshAfter: "RECORD_ACTION"
),
local!selected_tasks: a!refreshVariable(
  value: a!queryRecordType(...).data,
  refreshOnVarChange: local!refresh
),
local!expired_tasks: a!refreshVariable(
  value: a!forEach(...),
  refreshOnVarChange: local!selected_tasks
)