Double addition in Before Business Rule

[lonesoac01]

Hello all,

I have a Before business rule that is adding to an integer field twice.  Here is the code:

current.u_rejection_count = current.u_rejection_count + 1;

As you can see, the intent is just to add one to whatever number was originally in the field.  It should be yielding results such as:

First rejection:

   0 (default value) + 1 = 1

Second rejection:

 1 + 1 = 2

etc.

What is happening is:

First rejection:

   0 (default value) + 1 = 1

   1 + 1 = 2

Second rejection:

   2 + 1 = 3

   3 + 1 = 4

My intuition is telling me that somehow another BR is causing this, but I am not sure.  What am I missing?

[Amit Gujarathi]

HI @lonesoac01 ,
I trust you are doing great.
You can try debugging the BR.

• ou can use the gs.info() method to add debugging statements within your BR to get more insights into when and how it’s being executed.

Here is a revised version of your code with debugging statements:

(function executeRule(current, previous /*null when async*/) {

    // Debugging: Log the current value of u_rejection_count
    gs.info("Before BR: u_rejection_count = " + current.u_rejection_count);
    
    current.u_rejection_count = current.u_rejection_count + 1;
    
    // Debugging: Log the updated value of u_rejection_count
    gs.info("After BR: u_rejection_count = " + current.u_rejection_count);

})(current, previous);

[lonesoac01]

Hello all,

An update on the situation.  I think I might have found a correlation between the running of the business rule twice and a related list.  I am seeing a rejection count of 3 and I am seeing a total of three rejections in the metrics related list.  I only rejected the request twice.

[lonesoac01]

I went into the Metric definition, and it seems to be watching the Approval field.  Whatever is going on, it is clearly happening on the change_request table.