Default an initial value of JobFamily to PostionFamily-

Hi all,

I have done initial value defaults several times in the past and for some reason it is not working but it should be very simple.

In a nutshell: We have created some jobs families and associated them with certain jobs. Instead of adding the families to the many positions, I am trying to have the initial value of the Job.JobFamily default onto the PositionFamily on the LRDPostionDetail form.

The lpl for this section is below. I removed the select is PostionFamilySelectNoStatus and that did not work either. It always leaves it a dropdown. If I used display only it is blank:

header4 of "Classifications"

        paragraph
            PositionFamily
                select is PositionFamilySelectNoStatus
                initial value is Job.JobFamily
            PositionFamily.Description
                no label
                display as text

This should be pretty simple to do so I don't know what I ham missing. Any ideas on what I am overlooking?

Thank you!

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Dr. Awesome

Is this an action that Updates Position or Creates them? Initial value rules only fire on Create (and special types of Update Request Actions).

infor

I just thought that I need to set up some type of condition or relation in order for the PostionFamily to know which JobFamily to get the initial value from. I know what I want to do but not sure how to now that I thought more about it. I'm not sure how to get a list of existing relations & conditions, as there may be one out there for me to use. Does anyone have any suggestions?

infor

Thanks dude!

It updates the classification of the position, field JobFamily. It's normally done via Admin, Position,setup. We have set up 10 Job Families and associated them with only certain jobs. Since the Jobs have many Positions associated with them (one to many), instead of setting up the position families for all of the Positions we would like to have the Job family default to the Position family. Initially I thought this would be real simple but I realized I needed something to associate the two.

Dr. Awesome

On the Job field I think you want this:

Job

when value changed

PositionFamily = Job.JobFamily

What this says is that anytime the value of Job changes, go update the PositionFamily field with the value of Job.JobFamily. Make sense? is this what you wanted?

I just re-read your initial post as well. Are you doing this hoping to initially populate a bunch of fields one-time? I'd use ISD for that. You still likely need my proposed solution for on-going day-to-day changes.

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Dr. Awesome

Over the line!! My indentation was not preserved...

"when value changed" should be tabbed in from Job. "PositionFamily = Job.JobFamily" tabbed in from that.

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