Setting a Special Record ID via Code Studio

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Hi

Is it possible to set a special record id via code studio?

Thanks

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No you can’t.

If you are able to explain your requirement a bit though - someone may be able to suggest some alternatives ?

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That’s a bit disappointing, thanks though Haydn.

Broad requirement was that we wanna allow a user to update a Special Record, but the standard presenters via the Variable and Special Record editor widget don’t provide the best UX for this (text entry is no good, typeahead is not always a good fit).

For our immediate purpose we’ve built ourselves a custom presenter that lists a selected value from available records in a dropdown (happy to share), and that works fine for our use case as there will never be more than maybe 10 options.

More widely allowing a special record to be set via Code Studio and/or a low code rule would open up more flexibility in design, whereby we could set the special record via a button press from wherever we like, or automate it on some specific event (a date passing perhaps). I’ll look to add this as a feature request.

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You could maybe write a “presenter” code studio object for the field to show some form of selectable list or other custom UI you might want for your users.

You are still relying on the standard widget to actually save the value but at least you might be able to apply a better UI experience in terms of selecting records etc ?