[Vtigercrm-developers] get entity parent in workflow custom function?

[Christoper J Combrink]

It's really late.. But I may have a solution that goes about a totally
different way.

If I understand your logic - you could query all contracts into an array
that are "related to" an organisation and then mark the most recently
created one as the primary contact. Assuming you always want to have the
most recent one set as primary?

Regards,

CJC

(sent on the move)

On Mon, 18 Jun 2018, 21:45 Alex Hall, <ahall at autodist.com> wrote:

> Hello list,
> I've been asked to write a custom function for a workflow to run whenever
> a contact is updated. We have a custom field called "is primary contact",
> which is just a checkbox. However, each organization can only have one
> primary contact at a time. That means the custom function has to move the
> "primary" designation to the newly selected contact. Put another way, the
> function has to do these tasks:
>
> * get $entity's "is primary" custom field value
> * exit if the newly set value is false, as there's nothing to update
> * get $entity's parent organization (remember that $entity is from a
> contacts workflow)
> * set all the children contacts of $entity's parent organization to not be
> primary, while setting $entity itself to be the only primary
>
> My main problem right now is finding $entity's parent. I can't figure out
> how to do that. I've looked at the source code, but there's nothing in that
> class that seems to be a way of accessing the parent. What's the trick to
> this, or can it not be done how I want? Is there another way anyone can see
> to get this working? Hopefully I've explained enough to make sense. Thanks.
>
> --
> Alex Hall
> Automatic Distributors, IT department
> ahall at autodist.com
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