Exit State CGVALUE

When you reference an exitstate in an action diagram or dialog flow, for example to test the value, you use a statement that references the exitstate name, for example:

IF exitstate IS EQUAL TO database_updated

The generated code does not test the exitstate name, instead it tests a special property of the exitstate called CGVALUE. The advantage of testing the CGVALUE is that this does not change if the exitstate name is changed or when the exitstate is migrated between models.

When you create an exitstate on the toolset, an initial value is assigned, but when the model is uploaded to the encyclopaedia, a new model-wide CGVALUE is assigned to the exitstate that will differ from the value initially assigned in the toolset. This means that any code generated on the toolset prior to re-downloading the model or subset will still use the old value but any newly generated code will reference the new value.

Therefore when you create a new exitstate, you should ensure that any code generated on the toolset that references the new exitstate is re-generated once you have re-downloaded the model/subset to ensure that the CGVALUE is consistent.

Rapide uses the CGVALUE in the window XML files and for externalising the exitstate messages in the strings file and hence you will also need to regenerate the Rapide window manager files and the strings file as well as the generated code.