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We have an issue with a variable overwriting another variable within a sail form
ashleyb
over 8 years ago
We have an issue with a variable overwriting another variable within a sail form. These variables initially have the same value and then one is modified by the user while the other remains a "read only" version. The issue we are having is when the user edit's the editable variable, the values are being overwritten in the "read only" variabe - before anything is saved to the databse (the database is the original source for both).
load(
/*Retrieving fresh exception data from the SQL database before populating to the user (Added with Release 6)*/
ri!eadOnly_exceptionDetails_cdt : rule!CAC_getExceptionByIDAndNotStatus(ri!exceptionDetails_cdt.crsExceptionID, "Cleared"),
ri!exceptionDetails_cdt : rule!CAC_getExceptionByIDAndNotStatus(ri!exceptionDetails_cdt.crsExceptionID, "Cleared"),
local!noDocAttached_bool: if(
getdocumentsfromfolder(
rule!findExactFolderNameMatch(
ri!exceptionDetails_cdt.crsExceptionID
),
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Eliot Gerson
Appian Employee
over 8 years ago
So there are a couple things I'm seeing that could be part of the problem: when you call a rule input, it should always be prefaced with ri! . You don't seem to be following this syntax on line 22 or 42, for example. I also noticed that line 22 ends with an apostrophe, where I think you meant to put a comma.
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Eliot Gerson
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over 8 years ago
So there are a couple things I'm seeing that could be part of the problem: when you call a rule input, it should always be prefaced with ri! . You don't seem to be following this syntax on line 22 or 42, for example. I also noticed that line 22 ends with an apostrophe, where I think you meant to put a comma.
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