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Nuno Aguiar Dynamicweb Employee
Nuno Aguiar
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Posted on 06/04/2021 14:03:25

Hi,

 

I ran into a situation with a customer:

 

  • He was creating a summary field using fields that come from an index builder extender
  • The result wascoming up emtpy
  • We got to the conclusion that the IndexBuilderExtender only runs after all summary fields have been processed

 

Is it by design that all summary fields are processed before the IndexBuilderExtender runs? This makes sense in my mind, but the opposite also does, so I wonder what would be best:

  • In the builder have an option to process Summary fields before OR after the extenders
    OR
  • Exclude certain fields from dropdown list creating summary fields

 

Thoughts?

 

Best Regards,

Nuno Aguiar


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Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 06/04/2021 15:27:40
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Yes, that is by design - extenders run after the fields. Otherwise the field values would not be available for your extender. So kind of a hen and egg problem.

 
Nuno Aguiar Dynamicweb Employee
Nuno Aguiar
Posted on 06/04/2021 15:51:05
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Hi Nicolai,

 

Fair enough. But what can we do to avoid our customers to know how to distinguish which fields are eligeble on Summary fields vs not. Would that be just a matter of naming the fields accordingly so that the customer "knows" not to use them?

 

Nuno

 

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