DEVELOPERS FORUM - Help with Code explanation

gteachou - Thursday, November 7, 2013 5:10 PM:

I have some code from a method that is not working correctly (See code below) What is happening is after some text is entered into a data field and the item is saved the IF condition is false. But on the second save the IF condition becomes true. Which is the correct behavior I am looking for.

Code snippet:

string itemAction = this.getAction();

string itemVersion = this.getAttribute("version","");

if (itemAction != "version" && itemVersion != "0") {

So what I am trying to understand is what the variable "itemAction" is doing. If I remove the IF condition "itemAction != "version" " the code works correctly. I am fine with removing this condition but I am afraid I might be missing some other issue.

Any thoughts

Thanks

G.Teachout

Amit Nawale - Friday, November 22, 2013 4:02 AM:

Hi gteachou,

      As per my knowledge, version is not attribute of Item and not a property by default.

       Due to that this.getAttribute("version",""); always return blank which is not equal to 0;

     use 

        string itemVersion = this.getProperty("generation","");

     instead of string itemVersion = this.getAttribute("version","");.

     Also you can create log file on server side method and check details is as:

      CCO.Utilities.WriteDebug("versionLog","Item Version:"+itemVersion);

      CCO.Utilities.WriteDebug("versionLog","Item Action"+itemAction );

      write above line above if and Run your code check versionLog file inside innovator-->server-->temp directory. 

     You will check details.

Thanks,

Amit