BPM Update not allowed, Engineered and Prevent Change

[jtownsend (John Townsend)]

Check out this thread from the last couple days. It covers basically the same issue.

How to unengineer a job using a BPM?

Does anyone know of a way to unrelease/unengineer a job using a BPM? I seem to always get the “JobHead not changed” error when trying to run ChangeJobReleased method. Any help would be useful!

My explanation (and solution) starts here:

How to unengineer a job using a BPM?

This is using a function (which you should be using for anything complicated anyway), but it walks you through the whole process of taking an existing job, unengineering it, re-pulling details, and re-engineering. If you stick to BPM’s, the method calls will be pretty much the same. Note that this specific example was meant to be run on a list of JobHead records. For your needs you’d need to call JobEntry.GetByID() or use a LINQ query to create the variable “job”. The quick answer to your qu…