set Effect in Actions

[Carsten Neumann]

Hi,

I have a problem setting the effect in an Action. I tried the following code but when I open the Model in EA the effect is empty.
I think I'm missing a save/update, but where?
            EA.Element na1 = activity.Elements.AddNew("Action1", "Action");
            na1.Notes = "Action1 Note";
            
            foreach (EA._CustomProperty o in na1.CustomProperties)
            {
                if (o.Name.Equals("effect"))
                {
                    o.Value = "Effect of Action1";
                }
            }
            na1.CustomProperties.Refresh();
            na1.Refresh();
            if (!na1.Update())
            { MessageBox.Show(na1.GetLastError()); }

Cheers
Carsten

[Eve]

I haven't tried running this. But my guess is in red below.

            EA.Element na1 = activity.Elements.AddNew("Action1", "Action");
            na1.Notes = "Action1 Note";
            
            foreach (EA._CustomProperty o in na1.CustomProperties)
            {
                if (o.Name.Equals("effect"))
                {
                    o.Value = "Effect of Action1";
                    o.Update();
                }
            }
            na1.CustomProperties.Refresh();
            na1.Refresh();
            if (!na1.Update())
            { MessageBox.Show(na1.GetLastError()); }

Cheers
Carsten

[Carsten Neumann]

Hi Simon,

I thought the same. Unfortunately CustomProperty does not have an Update() Methode.

Any other ideas?

Carsten

[Aaron B]

Just another suggestion - try removing your Refresh() calls.  Calling Refresh() before you call Update() will effectively undo all your changes before you have committed them to the database.

It's possible that the call to Element.Update will commit your changes to the CustomProperties values.

E.g.
           EA.Element na1 = activity.Elements.AddNew("Action1", "Action");
           na1.Notes = "Action1 Note";
          
           foreach (EA._CustomProperty o in na1.CustomProperties)
           {
               if (o.Name.Equals("effect"))
               {
                   o.Value = "Effect of Action1";
               }
           }
          //na1.CustomProperties.Refresh();
           //na1.Refresh();
          if (!na1.Update())
           { MessageBox.Show(na1.GetLastError()); }