Server Method working when given a GUID, but not when using this

If you applying changes of the "this" item any way inside the OnBeforeUpdate event, your method just called recursively.

Thank you alaxala,

Do you have any recommendations on where I could run this as an event then to avoid the recursive call?

or would going a route of getting a property to key off of like string ksaNumber = this.getProperty("_ksa_number","") not be a recursive action? or because that call is still using this it will be recursive?

Thank you alaxala,

Do you have any recommendations on where I could run this as an event then to avoid the recursive call?

or would going a route of getting a property to key off of like string ksaNumber = this.getProperty("_ksa_number","") not be a recursive action? or because that call is still using this it will be recursive?

In context of OnBeforeUpdate method you can change "this" any way, but you can't use this.apply() or perform any actions that will result in an this item being written to the database because it will trigger OnBeforeUpdate again.

When you inside OnBeforeUpdate you inside some upper "apply" already. So just change properties of "this" and return this. All your changes will be applied calling code.