simple after business rule not working

[juan9]

Im not sure what i am doing wrong haha.

when a record is created, and there is a after business rule that sets active to false, it does not work for some reason:

 

 

if i set the business rule to before it works.

here is a small video:
https://youtu.be/spq_8dQsuUA


if the rule was working when is set to after, would i get the updated record or would i have to refresh the page to see the updated record?

[Mark Roethof]

Hi there,

What would be your reason to do this after instead of before? If its an update on the current record (which it looks like reading your question), then doing this after does not immediately make sense.

Why is the after not working? Because there is no current.update(). Which obviously is a bad practice to do in business rule 😀.

[juan9]

Hi Mark,
thanks for replying to my question.
Im just seeing if there is something wrong with the instance, doing a simple test is all.

the after is not working because it should be setting active to false after the record is inserted.

I am using the business rules 'actions' so i dont need to use current.update().

the business rule 'action' worked for where i used when=before, so i know i dont need to use current.update() i think.

isnt the expected behavior to set active to false?

[Mark Roethof]

As I mentioned, no thats not the behavior. Also, why do you want to do an after business rule, doesn't make sense. Please explain.

[juan9]

What is the expected behavior? to not work?

I read what you send, it just said it does not work for setting values when using after..... 

i wonder why.

the reason why i am doing this is because i though there was an issue with our system, i was just testing