Why do work_note field on incidents, created by reopened alert not have the correct task template? - Support and Troubleshooting

Why do work_note field on incidents, created by reopened alert not have the correct task template? Description  Symptoms When customer has an auto open incident Alert rule that will apply a task template on the incident. The task template sets the incidents worknote field but when a new event comes in and reopens the alert, the newly created incident does not have the worknote field correctly updated per the task template.

Cause When a new Event comes in and reopens the alert, the "Reopen associated closed incident" Business Rule is triggered and create a new Incident which then invokes the application of task template. At the same time an update to work note field is triggered to update the message "The related alert {0} is now unlinked from the previous {1} {2}", [alertNumber, type, taskNumber]));"

Both these entries are made to the work_note Journal entry at the same time and hence we only update one of the records.

Resolution As a workaround to this behavior a gs.sleep(1001); can be introduced between the two inserts such that the inserts are a second apart and both reflect when an update is made on the field. In order to apply this workaround please follow the steps:

1. In application navigator type business rule, click on "Reopen associated closed incident" 2. In step 185 , please type gs.sleep(1001); just before the call to below statement updateWorkNoteField(newTask, gs.getMessage("The related alert {0} is now unlinked from the previous {1} {2}", [alertNumber, type, taskNumber])); 3. Once you have done this please test the behavior on new incident creation. You should be able to see the worknotes update.