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Yes. As long as each object in the chain refers to only one object on its left (like a completed action only refers to one corrective action) you can have a shortcut with a path from Completed Action all the way to Customer. If you are not sure you can always get the system to help you. Click inside...

So you model is like this (correct me if I am wrong): Customer - Project - Inspection - Corrective Action - Completed Action As long as the relationships are many-to-one or one-to-one going right-to-left, you can have a shortcut that refers to data in objects to the left in this chain. For example, ...

Each rule in Aware IM is supposed to represent a self-contained piece of business logic independent from other rules. From this point of view the emphasis is on the rule action, not on the condition. The three rules mentioned above just happen to have the same condition, but are otherwise independen...

The IS NEW condition is evaluated to TRUE only when the instance is actually created and saved in the database. This safeguards against the scenario when 2 users entering data at the same time would get the same value. By the same token, when the object form is initialised for creating a new instanc...

Terry,

Build #743 is now available for download. It fixes both of the problems identified earlier in this topic, specifically:

- list of progress stages is not shown on the new account form.
- checkboxes are not shown in the progress stages list for attribute Completed.

It is also important to note that condition IS NEW becomes TRUE only after the object instance is saved in the database. Therefore, in the rule If Account IS NEW Then Account.AccountNumber = COUNT Account the COUNT will include the newly created instance, whereas in the following initialization rule...

There is a good reason for this behaviour. The system executes rules with condition IS NEW when the object is actually created and saved in the database. Making assignment 'Account.AccountNumber = COUNT Account' at that very moment means that the account number will be unique. Contrary to this, the ...

Yes. You can override the default behaviour by configuring a process with 2 rules, for example: ENTER NEW Customer VIEW Customer and use this process (for example, from a menu item) instead of the default Create Object operation. Rather than showing a blank form for creating another instance, the sy...

Terry, > The new Account form does not show the list of stages. At the moment it does not because the system does not consider your rule to be initialisation rule. We are removing this restriction within the next few days so the form will be showing the list when creating a new Account. > If I click...

Terry, > Step 2a) gets rid of ProcessLifecycle but step 4a) says to create instances of it! My mistake - 'ProcessLifecycleStep.ProcessLifecycle = ProcessLifecycle' bit should not be in the rule, so the rule should look like this: If NOT (EXISTS ProcessLifecycleStep) Then CREATE ProcessLifecycleStep ...

Terry, You can do the following: 1. Define object ProcessLifecycle with text attributes Step1, Step2 … Step12 2. Add the following rule to an initialisation process that will run once when the applications is first started on the client's computer. The rule will create the only instance of object Pr...

Terry, If you want to allow the user to link chosen accounts to chosen people the easiest way would be to have a couple of matching attributes Account.Person and RegularUser.Accounts. Then the user can simply click the Add From List button for the attribute on either Account or RegularUser form. The...

Actually, hyperlinks for attributes containing a URL are supported in an Aware IM feature known as presentation. Basically, a presentation is a powerful read-only alternative to an object form that can be used to display results of a query or details of an object. In addition, presentations may have...

Terry, When you change presentation options for an attribute, by default they will be used on all forms and all form sections where the attribute is displayed. If you change attribute presentation on a form section it will override the default attribute presentation for that particular section only....

Terry, The easiest way to do this is to define object Salutation with an attribute Title of type text. At run-time the users can add new Salutation instance for each salutation they desire and type the text into Title attribute. They can also maintain their list of salutations (you may want to add a...