Business rule is not enforced for Open for Time Entry

Products

• Clarity PPM On Premise
• Clarity PPM SaaS

Issue/Introduction

User cannot disable Open for Time Entry if ETCs are zero in a business rule

Steps to Reproduce: 

1. Go to Administration>>Blueprints
2. Create a new Project blueprint
3. Create a new Business Rule
   • Target Object: Assignment
   • Rule Type: Attribute Update
   • Target Attribute: ETC
   • Add Condition 
   • Under Data Actions
   • If Is Equal to 0, then set attribute Open for Time Entry to No
   • and
   • If Is Empty, then set attribute Open for Time Entry to No
4. Save and publish blueprint
5. Associate the blueprint with a project that has assignments with ETC
6. Delete the ETC

Expected Results: Open for time entry will be set to No

Actual Results: Open for time entry does not change

Environment

Clarity 16.2.3+

Resolution

Attribute Update rules cannot be triggered on TSV attributes.  Also, indirect updates do not trigger business rules - updates must happen on the same attribute that is configured on the rule. Which in this case is the scalar ETC as the update was done on the TSV ETC.