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Adventurer1111
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z_DetailedReport refers to a non-exitent attribute

Post by Adventurer1111 » Thu Apr 03, 2025 12:59 pm

Hi All,

I was playing around with the Z_DetailedReport transformation and ran into an issue that turned-out to be a test containing REFID. (line 613)

So I was wondering what that attribute is used for, and can I safely ignore it? I see that it is in the TDL file, but not supplied to the transformation.

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Re: z_DetailedReport refers to a non-exitent attribute

Post by abstr » Tue Apr 08, 2025 8:56 am

Hi @Adventurer1111

The REFID attribute exists only for 'Task References' and is used to look up the real task referenced.

Technically, reference tasks require no attributes except their parent task and position and REFID, but I also include the real task's title to simplify situations where only the real task's title is required.

So if that's all you are interested in, or if you are not interested in reference tasks at all, then REFID can be ignored.

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Re: z_DetailedReport refers to a non-exitent attribute

Post by Adventurer1111 » Tue Apr 08, 2025 9:03 am

Hi abstr,

I removed that choose and the otherwise condition and it all works as expected now.

Thank you.

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