How do I disable a CAPI business rule?

Question

I have a capi business rule that requires that an order have at least one order line. The business rule is on both the order and the order line table.
I have written a procedure which must insert a record into the order table and a record in the order line table but of course the constraints restrict me.
I can disable the insert triggers on the two tables and that will work but I was wondering if there was another way of doing this without interfering with the TAPI.
Does anyone have an example you could send me?
Also, I have noticed the TAPI triggers use an indicator for the table columns which can be set to TRUE or FALSE, where can I find information on the use of the indicator parametre?
I would appreciate any direction and help you may have to offer.
Lise McGillis.

Answer 1

I think your problem is that TAPI triggers are opening and closing RuleFrame transaction and the BR fails immediately when you insert the record in master table (orders).
You don't have to disable TAPI triggers nor business rules!
You just have to open the RuleFrame transaction explicitly, make the DML operations (insert, update, delete), and then close the transaction. In that way, the business rules are being checked at the end of the transaction (when you call close_transaction). TAPI triggers will know that the RuleFrame transaction is already opened and they will not try to open or close another one.
Here's the sample code:
begin
qms_transaction_mgt.open_transaction( p_trans_opened_by => 'XYZ' );
insert into orders ...
insert into order_lines ...
qms_transaction_mgt.close_transaction( p_trans_opened_by => 'XYZ');
commit; -- it is important that you close the transaction before commit
end;
Instead of 'XYZ' put a string that will be meaningful for you. It's only important that you put the same string in open_transaction and close_transaction.
For more information about this, you can look at Headstart User's Guide, chapter 12.
I hope that helps!
Dalibor