Help with Business Rule on Change Request to Validate Approvers

[Baggies]

On a Change Request form, I have a custom field (reference to sys_user) to add an additional Business Approver.

I want to write a business rule to prevent the Assigned To person from being the same as this Business Approver.

The field name is u_business_approval.

I created a BR, but it will simply not run. After 5 hours of going crazy, I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

Business Rue Name: Validate Approvers
Advanced = True
When to run: Before - Update
Order : 100
Condition: (current.state.changesTo(-3) && current.type=='normal') || (current.state.changesTo(-4) && current.type=='normal') 
SCRIPT:

(function executeRule(current, previous /*null when async*/ ) {
    var assignedTo = g_form.getValue("assigned_to");
    if ((assignedTo == g_form.getValue('u_business_approval'))
        // current.setAbortAction(true);

        alert("Business Approver cannot be Assigned To");
        current.state = -5; //check state value
        current.approval = 'not requested'; //remove it if you don't want to set approval
    }
})(current, previous);

Many thanks for any assistance. Mark S.

[Anurag Tripathi]

Hi,

g_form is a client side code that only runs on the form, and you are using a business rule , which runs on server side. 

To access the data on server side you can use current object.

Be sure this is a before BR

(function executeRule(current, previous /*null when async*/ ) {
    var assignedTo = current.assigned_to;
    if (assignedTo == current.u_business_approval)
        gs.addInfoMessage("Business Approver cannot be Assigned To");
        current.state = -5; //check state value
        current.approval = 'not requested'; //remove it if you don't want to set approval
    }
})(current, previous);

-Anurag

[Baggies]

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately the BR does not run when I add the condition:

(current.state.changesTo(-3) && current.type=='normal')

Active=True
When to run: before + update

Order - I have tried variaous orders, from 99 to 999

Advanced = true
Condition = (current.state.changesTo(-3) && current.type=='normal')

(function executeRule(current, previous /*null when async*/ ) {
var assignedTo = current.assigned_to;
    if (assignedTo == current.u_business_approval){
        gs.addInfoMessage("Business Approver cannot be Assigned To");
        current.state = -5; //check state value
        current.approval = 'not requested'; //remove it if you don't want to set approval
	}
})(current, previous);
   

[Anurag Tripathi]

Hi,

For the condition can you use the Filters Conditions OOB.

And then add logs to see whether the script runs or not.

-Anurag

[Jaspal Singh]

Can you try below

Remove everything from condition & try below

(function executeRule(current, previous /*null when async*/ ) {
if(current.type=='normal')
{
var assignedTo = current.assigned_to;
    if (assignedTo == current.u_business_approval){
        gs.addInfoMessage("Business Approver cannot be Assigned To");
        current.setAbortAction(true);
	}
}
})(current, previous);