Query on Business rule wrt Assignemnt group and Assigned to fields?

[Suggy]

In user table I have an user called'UserA'

In group table I have a group called 'GroupA'

In my business rule, i have written below 2 lines of code..

current.assigned_to =  "UserA"; -----> THIS WORKS

current.assignment_group = "GroupA"; ------> This DOES not work... WHY? (if I pass the sys_id, only then it works).

Why? both are reference fields. Then why the difference?

[_Gaurav]

Hi @Suggy 
Need to look at the configuration of the tables and others, but SN best practice says always use the sys_id while working with the reference fields as the name can be changed.
Thanks!

[Suggy]

Yes @_Gaurav  I know that its best practice to use sys_id, but still wanted to know the reason for above behaviour 🙂

[Hugo Barros]

hi @Suggy , maybe it can be something with the fields attributes. Could you check if both have the same value?

[Suggy]

Hello @Hugo Barros  I already checked it, that did not make any difference.