Overview

This 'hack' allows you to use value of other attributes or even functions (besides constants as usual) in "Update All". The functionality of this is taken from "Update Data" action available with DB Rules (and I think UI rules as well).
The idea for this ehancement came from George Menegakis who mentioned working on something like this but being stuck. Few times I wished to have this functionality available but managed with direct database update. So I decided to fulfill his wish ;-)

Installation

Download this archive and put in the beginning of the client classpath. Even simpler method is renaming it to hotifx.jar and putting it into the client lib directory (that's where other .jar files reside). This should work for any SP that supports this kind of update in DB Rules. I tested it on SP18 and higher.

Usage

Use as usual. Instead of standard value dialog for individual attributes you are presented with "enhanced" version that allows you to use

constant expression
value of some other attribute
one of the available functions (depending on attribute type)

Just set up whatever you desire for the new values and hit "OK". I added a progress bar so that you see what's going on. In case something fails standard dialog will be displayed with summary of error(s).

Remark: When you start the update it iterates over individual entities and then through the list of attributes being changed. Each attribute is evaluated and stored. Then comes next. So if you set up some attribute to be dependent on another that has been changed in one of the previous steps it will take new value into account!

History

0.9 [26/11/07] - initial version