How to avoid updates to dot walked fields

[Kalaiarasan Pus]

Let's a scenario of two tables incident and change.

I have dot walked the change reference field on incident and dot walked it's change type field and added to the form layout of incident.

Tab 1 - Open a incident record.

Tab 2 - Open the change record that is related to tab 1 incident and change it's type field.

Tab 1 - Save the record.

The changes done on tab-2 is lost and the type value is overwritten. How do avoid this behaviour?

[Pradeep Sharma]

Unfortunately No The only option is to check the value on target table before the update and make sure the value is in sync.

[Pradeep Sharma]

Hello Kalai,

Is this resolved now?

[Kalaiarasan Pus · Accepted solution]

I created a HI ticket for this as even when the dot walked fields were read-only on the form, the fields were getting updated. They have created a problem for this.

I ended up coming up with a workaround to resolve this. Here is the link of the blog if someone needs a workaround for this.

Unlearn Series - Workaround - Avoid update to dot walked fields.