Assigning contact to case w/o contract detail

Question

I have a new requirement to allow users to be able to assign a contract to a case without having to chose a contract line. Since this is OOTB functionality with CRM if you select a case the case detail field becomes required I am wondering how others have
handled this requirement.
Thanks Jenn

Answer 1

Hi Ilya
How the framework works, is if you have a parent and child VOs with appropriate associations, when you instantiate the child VO the FK fields will automatically be copied from the parent VO, because, you've instantiated the child VO as a child VO of the parent.
If you don't want this behaviour, in your AM don't expose the child VO as a child to the parent VO, expose it as a top level VO in it's own right. As such when you create the child VO, as it has no parent VO, the child VO FK fields will not be prepopulated.
So it's a question of, do you want the child VO to be a child VO of the parent VO, of which you have to live with the FK field prepopulation behaviour, -or-, if you don't, create the child VO as a parent in the AM, and populate the FK fields yourself.
CM.