Creating iFS content type require more then 4 values to be set for 1st attribute

Question

We get the following error:
exception in thread "main" oracle.ifs.common.IfsException: IFS-30002: Unable to
create new LibraryObject
java.sql.SQLException: ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into
("IFSSYS"."ODM_ATTRIBUTE"."SETTABLE")
at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:180)
at oracle.jdbc.oci8.OCIDBAccess.check_error(OCIDBAccess.java, Compiled
Code)
at oracle.jdbc.oci8.OCIDBAccess.executeFetch(OCIDBAccess.java, Compiled
Code)
at oracle.jdbc.oci8.OCIDBAccess.parseExecuteFetch(OCIDBAccess.java:1483)
at
We were happily creating, updating and deleting various iFS content types by
declaring 'n' attributes and then setting 3 or 4 of these properties of each
one of the 'n' attributes of every content type i.e.
//First attribute of the content Type
AttributeDefinition adef1 = new AttributeDefinition(ifsSession);
//First property of the first attribute of content Type
adef1.setAttributeByUpperCaseName(Attribute.NAME_ATTRIBUTE,
AttributeValue.newAttributeValue("FIRSTNAME"));
//Second property of the first attribute of content Type
adef1.setAttributeByUpperCaseName(Attribute.DESCRIPTION_ATTRIBUTE,
AttributeValue.newAttributeValue("The firstname of the
Employee"));
//Third property of the first attribute of content Type
adef1.setAttributeByUpperCaseName(Attribute.DATATYPE_ATTRIBUTE,
AttributeValue.newAttributeValue
(Attribute.ATTRIBUTEDATATYPE_STRING));
//Fourth property of the first attribute of content Type
adef1.setAttributeByUpperCaseName(Attribute.REQUIRED_ATTRIBUTE,
AttributeValue.newAttributeValue(true));
//Fifth property of the first attribute of content Type
//We are forced to set this up. Otherwise we get above error.
//However only required for first attribute of the content type.
//Rest of the attributes (n-1) are fine.
adef1.setAttributeByUpperCaseName(Attribute.SETTABLE_ATTRIBUTE,
String.valueOf(true));
//Sixth property of the first attribute of content Type
//We are forced to set this up. Otherwise we get above error.
//However only required for first attribute of the content type.
//Rest of the attributes (n-1) are fine.
adef1.setAttributeByUpperCaseName(Attribute.UPDATEABLE_ATTRIBUTE,
String.valueOf(true));
codef0.addAttributeDefinition(adef1);
The other attributes are fine. We only need to set 3-4 properties of these
attributes and could get away with it. Only the first attribute is causing the
above problem. For other attributes of the content type, we are still setting
only the first three/four properties
If you look at the definition of iFS internal table "odm_attribute", apart from field "id", which is an implicit column, there are 12 columns which are NOT NULL.
This means for every iFS attribute it must be required to set the values
of these 12 properties. However like most of the examples in iFS doco,
you could get away with setting 3-4 properties explicitly. I am sure some
of them are set implicitly by iFS.
The problem is, sometimes these implicit setting of properties by iFS is
not working and its complaining about them. The ones which are causing
problems are SETTABLE and UPDATEABLE.
We are forced to set them explicitly. Hence the inconsistency.
The problem is, what is the reason for iFS setting "SETTABLE" and
"UPDATEABLE" implicitly for some attributes and requiring us to set them
explicitly?
Thanks and Regards

Answer 1

hi srini,
i have includedthe char in rows. i want you to explain in detail how to use these values in the if then else statement in query.
i have created a calculated key figure 2= (formual variable =1 & keyfig a =0)* keyfig1kefig2 +not(formual variable =1 & keyfig a =0)keyfig2 *calculated keyfig1.
so this formula variable of replacement path have ref. to then char. and with what value should it replace, key, name, external char or attribut etc so that i should get the values of the char from 1 to20.
i donot to repalce with the attribute. i just want the char. values and not thier attributes (1. description 2. the second attribute has the values say abc1,efg2,ghi3 for respective charteristic values.
ie
char value               desc                 2nd attrib
1                            hi                     abc1
2                            bye                  defg2
3                            ciao                  ghi3