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Nino
Contributor III
Contributor III

Trigger on variable

Happy new year to everybody!

My first 2019 problem: I'm studying the trigger behavior and I'm not able to understand why the variable tied to a fields change but the relative triggers don't do the same.

Can someone have a look at my example, pls?

Thank you so much.

N.

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rwunderlich
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Partner Ambassador/MVP

I'm not sure it's possible with Actions.  More likely you could use conditional logic or set analysis in your expression to deal with it.

-Rob

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rwunderlich
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Partner Ambassador/MVP

What you are seeing is as designed.  The trigger is only fired for user initiated actions, not changes performed by Actions. Your field OnChange action sets a variable but this will not trigger the onChange for the variable. This is to prevent an endless cascade of triggers.  Imagine if in your example, the field OnChange trigger changed a variable and the variable OnChange trigger changed the field. would They ping-pong back and forth forever. 

-Rob
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Nino
Contributor III
Contributor III
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Hi Rob,

thak you for the explanation!

So the next question is: what about if I have to link and action to the change of a variable or a field NOT as a consequence of a direct change made up by the user?

Thanks.

N.

rwunderlich
Partner Ambassador/MVP
Partner Ambassador/MVP

I'm not sure it's possible with Actions.  More likely you could use conditional logic or set analysis in your expression to deal with it.

-Rob