Power Fx Patch Status Reason

[HS_Nico]

Hello everyone,

I am currently trying to change the status and status reason of a data record with a custom command bar button via Power Fx. Changing the status works without problems. However, I cannot change status reason. 

Below is my non-working code. Note: I'm German, so I have to use a semicolon instead of a comma and a double semicolon instead of a semicolon (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/power-fx/expression-grammar#separators).

Patch(
    TableName;
    Self.Selected.Item;
    {
        Statusgrund: 'Statusgrund (TableName)'.'Lable of the status reason';
        Status: 'Status (TableName)'.Inaktiv
    }
);;

After typing Statusgrund: 'Statusgrund (TableName)'. entered, the code completion suggests only the two options Aktiv and Inaktiv. Which leads to the default value of the respective status. Can someone explain me how to use the status reason here? I have already tried to use the value (number) of the status reason: Statusgrund: 'Statusgrund (TableName)'.'4'. I also tried to use the shed and attach the reason: Statusgrund: 'Statusgrund (TableName)'.Inaktiv.'Lable of the status reason'.

Thank you and best regards
Nico

[jcfDaniel]

Hi,

Status Reason have a related Status, so you cannot have a Status of Active and a Status Reason of Inactive (I mean by default since you can change the default Status Reason).

Try changing first the Status and then the Status Reason.

[HS_Nico]

Unfortunately that doesn't work either. Even if the status reason belongs to the current status.

I am unable to change the status reason using patch.

[jcfDaniel]

Have you enabled status reason transitions?

[HS_Nico]

Okay, the problem is getting pretty confusing.

I am able to change the active status reasons. It doesn't matter whether the current status is active or inactive. And I can change the status to inactive. But what doesn't work is to set one of the inactive status reasons. It doesn't matter whether the status is already inactive or not.

That works

Patch(
    TableName;
    Self.Selected.Item;
    {
        Status: 'Status (TableName)'.Aktiv;
        Statusgrund: 'Statusgrund (TableName)'.'2'
    }
);;

That works too

Patch(
    TableName;
    Self.Selected.Item;
    {
        Status: 'Status (TableName)'.Inaktiv
    }
);;

That doesn't work

Patch(
    TableName;
    Self.Selected.Item;
    {
        Status: 'Status (TableName)'.Inaktiv;
        Statusgrund: 'Statusgrund (TableName)'.'4'
    }
);;

[jcfDaniel]

Statusgrund 4 is an Inactive Status?

[HS_Nico]

Yes, exactly. Status Reasons 1 and 2 are Active Statuses and 3 through 6 are Inactive Statuses. An error (underlined in red) is only displayed in the code for the inactive status.

[jcfDaniel]

and when you patch no error is returned? Are you sure you have no statuses transitions setup?

[HS_Nico]

I just checked again: status reason transitions are disabled.

When I press the created button in the model-driven app, I get an error message. But it doesn't contain a lot of information. Only the error code "0x0", the session id, the activity id and the time.

[jcfDaniel]

When you hover through that red underline, there should be an indication of whats wrong. What does it read?