Validation: Field 'Name' must be filled in

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I'm inserting a record using DirPersonBaseEntity, but i'm getting this error:
Field 'Name' must be filled in.\nvalidateField failed on field 'DirPartyBaseEntity.Name'\n"

How to auto fill it by code?

   DirPersonBaseEntity dirPersonBaseEntity;

   dirPersonBaseEntity.PartyNumber                     = "123";
   dirPersonBaseEntity.FirstName                       = "aa";
   dirPersonBaseEntity.LastName                        = "bb";
   dirPersonBaseEntity.insert();

However, if i do the same but using DirPersonEntity, it works directly without filling Name and i think it's because of this mapping. What does this mapping do?

and what do in base entity to make it work?

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Alireza Eshaghzadeh 14,839 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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The keys are PartyNumber and ValidFrom. If either the first name, middle name, last name prefix, or last name has changed, the Name value must be rebuilt.

Please try adding ValidFrom as part of the key. If that does not resolve the issue, rebuild the Name value accordingly.

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Martin Dráb 239,035 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Name seems to be calculated in DirPersonBaseEntity.mapEntityToDataSource(). Debug the code to identify the difference between your two cases.

Maybe you need to call initValue() of DirPersonBaseEntity.

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Hi @Martin Dráb @Alireza Eshaghzadeh

initValue fixed the issue directly but i don't know why it was needed for DirPersonBaseEntity and it wasn't needed for DirPersonEntiy

Regarding validFrom, i agree that i need to fill it, currently when i create a record, valid from is 1900, but when i update the record it's gets filled automatically with currentDateTime even though i didn't specify validFrom by code
How to fill validFrom in case of insert by code? and how it's handled in update automatically?

**regarding question duplication, i sent an email to the support team, not sure why my questions appear twice in the forum

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Martin Dráb 239,035 Most Valuable Professional on at

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If you debugged the code as I suggested, you'd have seen the difference.

This is my assumption about what happened:

If you look at the name calculation logic I mentioned, you'll notice that it depends on NameSequenceDisplayAs field. It's initialized in initValue() based on a parameter table. When DirPersonBaseEntity is used by DirPersonEntity, the system calls initValue() correctly. But when you used the entity from your code, you neither set NameSequenceDisplayAs field nor called initValue(), therefore NameSequenceDisplayAs wasn't specified and the name couldn't be calculated.

Please don't forget to verify the answer.

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Hi @Martin Dráb,

I debugged the code, and yes initValue of DirPersonBaseEntity gets called automatically when using DirPersonEntity, but if i will use DirPersonBaseEntity then yes i need to call initValue explicitly.

Thank you.

I will verify the answer but can someone help with the validFrom point that @Alireza Eshaghzadeh mentioned?
i will repeat what i found again:

Regarding validFrom, i agree that i need to fill it, but currently when i create a record, valid from is 1900 date, but when i update the record it's gets filled automatically with currentDateTime even though i didn't specify validFrom by code
How to fill validFrom in case of insert by code? and how it's handled in update automatically?

Because when we create the party manually, validFrom is filled, so the code should do the same somehow

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Martin Dráb 239,035 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Let's reiterate of what you've already found:

Your problem wasn't related to ValidFrom field at all (so it's a bit off-topic here).

It's not true that you need to fill in ValidFrom when creating new records.

The value is maintained by F&O kernel (if you don't provide a value).

If you want learn more about ValidFrom field and related logic, read Using date effective data pattern.

If you have more questions about date-effective tables and entities, please create a new thread for them.

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Hi Martin,

i agree it's not related and i just created a new question
DirPersonName ValidFrom is not filled automatically by code

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