Help with removing a link

[MatLudlam]

Hi, my "Contact" records have the default link to "Target Lists".

This means in script I can say:

targetListsIds = array\push(targetListsIds, $appScanTargetId)

And that will add the current Contact record to the target list with the ID $appScanTargetId.

All great.

How do I remove the Contact from that target list? I can check that it is there with the

array\includes(targetListsIds,$appScanTargetId)

function, but I cannot see a way to get rid of it.

Help apprecaited.

[MatLudlam]

Ok, after much messing around I managed to do this. We really need an easier way. This is what I came up with:

ifThenElse(
   array\includes(targetListsIds,$appScanTargetId)
,
   (
      $i = 0;
      $target=list();
      while(
         $i < array\length(targetListsIds)
      ,
         (
            $currentId = array\at(targetListsIds, $i);
            ifThen(
               $currentId != $appScanTargetId
            ,
               $target = array\push($target,$currentId)
            );
            $i = $i + 1;
         )
      );
      // we now have the new list, put it in the final resting place
      targetListsIds = $target;
   )
,
   // The item was not there, so no need to remove it
);

[shalmaxb]

wow, great solution!

[rabii]

you could user removeLinkMultipleID as below:

entity\removeLinkMultipleId(targetListsIds, $appScanTargetId);

That should remove the contact from a the specific Id of target list provided.

[MatLudlam]

you could user removeLinkMultipleID as below:

entity\removeLinkMultipleId(targetListsIds, $appScanTargetId);

That should remove the contact from a the specific Id of target list provided.

Thanks for the help, but that didn't work. However I changed it to:

entity\removeLinkMultipleId("targetLists", $appScanTargetId);

And that seemed to do the trick; so thanks for the pointer.

I had originally tried to use the

record\unrelate(ENTITY_TYPE, ID, LINK, FOREIGN_ID)

function but could not get that one to work.

It is not clear to me when you should use one or other function.

Thanks for the help.

[rabii]

it just takes time to get familiar with built in function. i am happy this helped, we are grateful for the developer team for such powerful software.