Hi Uday,

There is no ability to remove the add menu item from the form once you've added a Many2Many association to the Records Form. What you can do is control who has the ability to edit the records using business rules.

For instance you could have a validation rule that prevents a user from creating a new relationship. So even though they click add and choose the Request to be added when the system tries to save this is prevented and an error message is shown based upon the criteria you set say they are part of a particular group or something similar.

It's worth referring to the following doc link about validation rule:

OpenText Documentation Portal (microfocus.com)

Also take a look at what you can do around using the following expression for Many2Many:

Thanks,

Dave

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the suggestion. 

Let me try to see whether it serves my requirement.

Regards,

Uday

If I put any validation rule, it prevents my own custom rule from execution.

Also when I enter ${current_association_update.association_name it does not show color of recognized command so not this is really accpetable. Unfortunately documentation is quite deficient in this respect.

I have a rule create new related record with relationship 

The OTB 'Add' gives option to choose an item from dropdown and adds it means internally it is create relationship  for existing record. This is unacceptable in my scenario. 

My requirement is whenever relate an item , it is created and linked. Linkig existing is not permissible

On my form if I choose Add spare , it Create record with relationship

where as if I click "Add" then it is create link with existing spare record which is not acceptable because it is already linked to another record

Though issue is not resolved as expected. Anyways thanks for the suggestion.

Uday

Hi Uday,

Yes when using that particular expression no colouring is shown. So even though you have a correct expression it doesn't change colour as you type it in. For example I used something like this:

So as long as a particular user tries to add then the rule prevents them from doing so. If another user does the same then they are allowed to add. Now using users isn't ideal which is were Groups would be better but it was just to show it can work.

As you'll see the text is all black and not colour coded but the rule still runs fine. It's just not part of the identity lookup when writing an expression which like you say isn't helpful.