DirPersonName ValidFrom is not filled automatically by code

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Hi,

When we create a contact person for a customer manually, then DirPersonName.ValidFrom field gets filled automatically.

However, if we i do it by code, the validFrom field in DirPersonName is not filled

  smmContactPersonV2Entity.ContactPersonId                = _contract.ContactPersonId();
  smmContactPersonV2Entity.AssociatedPartyNumber          = _contract.AssociatedPartyNumber();
  smmContactPersonV2Entity.ContactPersonPartyType         = enum2Str(DirPartyType::Person);  
  smmContactPersonV2Entity.FirstName                      = _contract.FirstName();   
  smmContactPersonV2Entity.ContactForParty                = DirPartyTable::find(_contract.AssociatedPartyNumber()).RecId;

  smmContactPersonV2Entity.insert();

is there a method i need to call?

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Martin Dráb 238,193 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Do you mean that you want to explicitly set the data as invalid before the current time?

Please tell us what steps you do in GUI.

You're using an entity - what behaviour do you see when you import the data through data management? You'll see whether it's the normal behavior of the entity or the problem is caused by your code.

Will it make any difference if you call initValue()?

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Sohaib Cheema 49,504 User Group Leader on at

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it appears that while the record is created from the UI, it goes through

DirPartyBaseEntity >> insertEntityDataSource >> postUpdatePartyBuffer >>

and this is where the ValidFrom and ValidTo are initialized

If values for these fields are not being provided to entity field, it will take Max and Now values as above:

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Martin Dráb 238,193 Most Valuable Professional on at

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I wonder the GUI for contact persons really use data entities. smmContactPerson form, for example, uses ContactPerson table as the data source, not smmContactPersonV2Entity.

Nevertheless Sohaib's finding suggest that DirPersonName.ValidFrom is expected to be initialized in the current time if a new record is being inserted. Debug the code to see why it doesn't execute in your case.

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Hi All,

From the UI, i just go to customers, view contacts, create new contact (fill first name and last name)
I go to the DB and see that DirPersonName.ValidFrom gets filled with current date time.

Using entity.initValue() doesn't make a difference, still DirPersonName.ValidFrom is empty (1900)

DirPartyBaseEntity doesn'r get called from the UI

I debugged and I saw it doesn't enter the code that Sohaib mentioned because of savedPersonName= No

Even though initValue in dirPartyBaseEntity is yes

there is code later that makes it no in mapEntityToDataSource method, which gets called before the code that Sohaib mentioned

What is this field savePersonName? and why does it become false later? and how to overcome it?

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