Add another Employee row on a ViewObject with Dept/Employee Entites

Question

I have a ViewObject with Dept and Employee Entities, both updateable.
Is it possible to create a new Employee but the same department using that Viewobject?

Answer 1

I tried doing this:
I got the viewRow of the ViewObject and then get the department's rowiterator that contains the employees; When I get the rowIterator, i inserted a blank row and then I re-executed the query. See the following code below:
DemptEmployeeVieObjectRowImpl viewRow =  (DeptEmployeeViewObjectRowImpl)getCurrentRow();
DepartmentEntity department = viewRow.getDepartmentEntity();
EmployeeEntity employees = viewRow.getEmployee();
//getEmployees() returns the employees that are included in the department
RowIterator rowIterator = department.getEmployees();
Row newRow = rowIterator.createAndInitRow(employees);
rowIterator.insertRow(newRow);
getViewObject().setQueryMode(ViewObject.QUERY_MODE_SCAN_ENTITY_ROWS);
getViewObject().executeQuery();But the problem is when I set the query mode to SCAN_ENTITY_ROWS, and the re-execute the query, it creates a new record of the ViewObject including the Department row, which I dont want to do.
Why is it creating a department row when i just created a row in the rowIterator?
In the first place, Is it possible to create a new employee only, assign it to an existing department using a DeptEmployeeViewObject?