Can you reclassify a CI using a script?

[Kit Sanders2]

Is it possible to reclassify a CI by using a script?

I know it is possible to manually reclassify a CI by updating the Class (sys_class_name) on the form, but if I change the sys_class_name using a script, this results in a "record not found" error" on the CI.

From what I can gather, when the CI class is manually changed, a process runs in the background which deletes the CI from the old table and inserts it with the same sys_id into the new table. It seems that when the sys_class_name is changed by a script, this process in not invoked.

Any help gratefully received

[avinash kumar]

Hi Kate,

If the process is a business rule, you need to call   setWorkflow(true) in the script you are writing. This will allow the BR to run;

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Avinash

[Kit Sanders2]

I tried it, but it makes no difference. Here is a simplified version of the BR (running on the cmdb_ci_computer table):

function onAfter(current, previous) {

  current.sys_class_name = 'cmdb_ci_server';

  current.setWorkflow(true);

  current.update();

}

[mikeblack]

Wrote a before business rule and ryn it on cmdb_ci table

function onBefore(current, previous) {

    //This function will be automatically called when this rule is processed.

  current.sys_class_name='cmdb_ci_web_server';

action.setRedirect(current);

}

[Kit Sanders2]

Thanks but this is not the issue. I added action.setRedirect(current); to the script but got the same "record not found" error