How do you populate or update dates stored as numeric values?

I added a new date field, cstReminderDateDA, to a custom business object. For existing records, there is a requirement that cstReminderDate be set to the value of an existing date field (cstDueDateDA) minus 30 days, i.e. cstReminderDateDA = (cstDueDateDA – 30). This would be pretty straightforward, except that both cstReminderDateDA and cstDueDateDA are stored as numeric fields in our Microsoft SQL Server database. How do I populate cstReminderDateDA?

IBM TRIRIGA stores the date as epoch time. See the following wiki link explaining this. If you do some searching, you will find some functions available for SQL Server for data calculations.

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How do you use fields that refer to Current Date or System Date?

What is the best way to handle calculated fields that need to reference the Current Date or System Date? For example, I have a number field in the Building BO called Building Age. To calculate the Building Age, I had to create another field called “cstCurrentDateDA” to store the current date the Building record was created.

From there, I take the Current Date minus the In Service Date of the building. However, let’s say I wanted the Building Age field to get updated daily. In my current design, I would have to probably create an asynchronous workflow to update the “cstCurrentDateDA” field and then trigger a Save action to get the extended formula against the Building Age field to fire.

Is there a better approach to dealing with field variables that rely on the Current Date or System Date? Instead of creating a custom field to store the Current Date to act as a constant factor?

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How do you import the upgrade OM packages to custom environments?

We have already upgraded our platform to 3.5.2.1. We are currently in the process of upgrading our application from 10.3.2 to 10.5.2.

For the application upgrade, we have set up a staging environment with an initial install of 10.5.2 and we have configured all BOs, forms, and other objects to meet our current customization. My question is: What if we import the IBM upgrade OM packages (sequential from 10.4 to 10.5.2) to our current environment (which has all customization)? It would definitely overwrite all the customization and configuration, but does it affect the record data as well (e.g. lease records)?

When it overwrites the customization at the BO and form level, would it corrupt the record data since some of the custom fields on the records won’t exist at the BO level any more? And what happens after we import all our customization back in the current environment from the staging environment?

The short answer is: You wouldn’t apply the IBM upgrade OM packages. Instead, you’d build OMs in your now customized 10.5.2 environment and then apply them to your current environment.

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How do you query which label class is used on which fields?

Is there a way to query which label class is being used on which fields? I want to tweak the existing ones slightly, but I’m not sure what is going to be updated when I make the change.

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IV97814: triTaskResourceFact and triDimTaskStatusTX have changed

When running an ETL Job in IBM TRIRIGA 3.5.2, we see the following error, because the T_triTaskResourceFact table, triTaskResourceFact BO, has changed, and the triDimTaskStatusTX field is no longer a locator:

ERROR [com.tririga.platform.workflow.runtime.taskhandler.ETL.KETTLE](triTaskResourceFactETL - Insert into triTaskResourceFact) Insert into triTaskResourceFact - org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleException: Error inserting row into table [T_TRITASKRESOURCEFACT] with values: ...
Error inserting/updating row ORA-00904: "TRIDIMTASKSTATUSTXOBJID ...

The status dimension data was not populating for the task resource metric table. Moving forward, we needed to make changes to populate the data correctly.

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How do you uncheck or remove a field from a smart section?

I noticed that after I check to add a field into a smart section that I am not able to uncheck the field after the BO has been published. Is there a way to uncheck the field? Or is my only option to delete the smart section in Data Modeler and recreate the smart section?

In Data Modeler, the smart sections show up in yellow in the association list. If the business object is in revision, and you click on the blue box to the left of the smart section in the yellow box, it will display the smart section field list. From there, you can select fields and click the Delete button to remove them. You may need to remove them from any forms using them before it allows the deletion though.

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Why is the root classification set to the ~ (tilde) symbol?

In my current TRIRIGA 10.3.2 / 3.5.2.1 environment, I see that some of the classification fields have a root classification value set to ~ (tilde) symbol. This seems strange to me, because classification fields can’t be created with a blank value or any such symbol.

And when I migrate the BO with such fields in another TRIRIGA 10.5.2 / 3.5.2.1 environment, it’s automatically populating the classification value (e.g. Expenditure Type) in the root classification. Has anyone seen a scenario where the root classification is set to the ~ symbol?

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