If the field was updated by a business rule, the scheduled job cannot override it?

[Neha Maurya]

Please help how I can ensure if the field was updated by a business rule, the scheduled job cannot override it?

I have found this somewhere-
Use a Before Update Business Rule
 create a Before Update business rule to prevent overwriting:
• Table: Select the target table
• When to Run: Before Update
• Condition: current.your_field.changes() && previous.your_field != ''
This ensures that if the field was updated by a business rule, the scheduled job cannot override it.

Please confirm, if anybody has already used it before? or is there any other or better way to achieve it.

[Shivalika · Accepted solution]

Hello @Neha Maurya 

Yes it will work. It will stop all updates in the system, once value is fixed, it will be fixed. If you want to change it agian, you will have to deactivate the BR, as also mentioned by me in first response, then we somehow got to other solutions and now back to this. 

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[Ankur Bawiskar]

@Neha Maurya 

what's your exact business requirement here?

If my response helped please mark it correct and close the thread so that it benefits future readers.

[OlaN]

Hi,

In general terms, you can always overwrite a value, even when you create a business rule that checks and stops the processing during some given conditions.

This is due to the fact that you can select to disregard business rules when running a script.

What is it you need help to do ?

[Shivalika]

Hello @Neha Maurya 

Not only for Scheduled jobs, it will not allow change when anyone updates it. Maybe add some more conditions to be specific such that it won't restrict updates by general users as well. 

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[Neha Maurya]

We have a CSDM Synch job, which overwrites the support group values which gets populated from the business rule, which we are aiming to stop by modifying the Business rule, so that once the value gets populated by business rule, the scheduled job is not able to overwrite it.