Formula Question - Attribute change from to

[esforim]

Need Formula genius or outside of the box thinker!

Anyway can we formula so that it activate only when it from 1 Value to another value?

There is the isAttributeChanged

But that only True or False.

Here is the setup:

Entity: Task
Frequency: Weekly
Status: Started

So when Status of "Started" is changed to "Complete", then I want to do something.

[item]

https://docs.espocrm.com/administration/formula/entity/#entityattributefetched

[esforim]

https://docs.espocrm.com/administrat...tributefetched

How to use this @item?

I'm doing something stupid like this but it fail. I will keep trying at the moment.

ifThen
    (entity\attribute('status')=='Schedule' && entity\isAttributeChanged('status'),
        ifThen
            (status=='Paid' && datePaid!=null,
            entity\setAttribute('description', 'working')
            )
    )​

[esforim]

https://docs.espocrm.com/administrat...tributefetched

WOW! I think this is exactly what I wanted. Here is the update code, time to debug it and test if it working like I wanted it to!

ifThen
(entity\attributeFetched('status')=='Schedule',
ifThen
(status=='Paid' && datePaid!=null,
entity\setAttribute('description', 'working')
)
)​

[esforim]

And here is the result of my work:

https://forum.espocrm.com/forum/general/54706-learning-espocrm-and-design?p=93954#post93954

[item]

Hi,
formula is beforeSave
attributeFetched retrieve value of database instant 0
when you modify in front-end sample is instant 0+1
when you save, is instant 0+2
so in beforeSave, you can compare instant 0 value with instant 1 value

[rabii]

WOW! I think this is exactly what I wanted. Here is the update code, time to debug it and test if it working like I wanted it to!

ifThen
(entity\attributeFetched('status')=='Schedule',
ifThen
(status=='Paid' && datePaid!=null,
entity\setAttribute('description', 'working')
)
)​

you can still use one condition no need to nest if statement because you can do all checking on one level something like below would also work:

ifThen(entity\attributeFetched('status') == 'Schedule' && entity\attribute('status') == 'Paid' && datePaid != null,
    entity\setAttribute('description', 'working')
)​ 

[esforim]

Thank you for the optimization Boss, I give it a try.

[esforim]

Anyone have any idea why this formula is delay by 1 edit?

For example:

Entity: Accounting
Field: debit

Purpose, update the current "balance" of an Bank Account.
I tried with both API before and after Save, it have the same issue. It working but I need to edit the field Debit twice before data get shown.

For example:

Update 1: Debit: 500
Update 2: Debit 600

Balance is shown as: 500, once I Update 3: Debit 700, Balance will then shown as 600. It always "1 time behind". On this logic I thought, would not double run the formula but it doesn't work.

Anyone doing something similar or know how to debug?

Thank you!

In my Accounting (custom) entity formula.

ifThen(
entity\isAttributeChanged('debit'),
record\update('Asset', array\at(assetsIds, 0), 'formulaRefresh', datetime\now()));
record\update('Asset', array\at(assetsIds, 0), 'formulaRefresh', 'second run')​

In my Asset (bank account) formula I calculate the Balance:

$credit = entity\sumRelated('accountings', 'debit');
$debit = entity\sumRelated('accountingsAssetTo', 'credit');

ifThen(
assetType=='Bank Account' || assetType=='Cash',
assetValue=$credit-$debit)​

[rabii]

What is the relationship between Accounting and Asset ? beside (record\update('Asset', array\at(assetsIds, 0), 'formulaRefresh', datetime\now())) what array\at(assetsIds, 0) means it should point to an index. i think updating the records should be easy i guess you will need to use a loop in Accounting to loop through all related assets / specific asset and update it. if you can share some screenshots i will help you with the code.

[esforim]

It is a ManytoMany n;n relationship between the two.

array\at(assetsIds, 0)

Because I can't get the assetID to work properly (being a Many to Many, and Multi-Links), so I use array\at(assetsIds, 0) to get 1st ID from the relationship.

I will get more details (video/screenshot) as my wording probably does make much sense.

[rabii]

yap try to get a video so we could understand better