Hi Luis,
You have to retrieve the whole list of objects of that you want to set the status to "InProgress". Then create a loop and iterate through this list. In the loop you make a decision like this: $iteratorList/status = enum.InProgress. If this is true then: You can associate it with the Orders object. If it is false then: Use the continue action (this will make the loop continue going through the list).
It would be faster if you only retrieve the ones that have status InProgress in the first place. This can be done using [status = 'InProgress] on your retrieve action. Follow the same steps as described above but without the decision.
Create a variable which will hold the enum. To convert the string to an enum key do something like the following:
if getCaption(MxModelReflection.Status.Invalid) = $Claim/status
then
MxModelReflection.Status.Invalid
else
MxModelReflection.Status.Valid
Then you will have the status in an enum and you can compare this to the retrieve.
Hi Luis,
Just to make sure I understand: you have imported data with a string attribute, lets call it status. You have existing objects within Mendix, that have an enumeration attribute called status also. You want to attach your imported data to existing objects based on the value of status (string on imported data and enumeration on existing Mendix objects). If this is the case, you could do the following:
Could be I am missing something about your requirements, but I think that will do what you need. Depending on the numbers of imported objects and objects to attach to inside of Mendix, this microflow may take a considerable time to execute. In this case, you can create a Processed boolean on the imported data entity, and retrieve groups of objects (say 100 or 100), that have not been processed yet. In this way, you can break up the work into bite sized pieces.
Hope that helps,
Mike