Thanks for the help guys. I have this working now, along with the double items. Is there any way to avoid/workaround this problem. Or rather another way to get a reference to the departments? Cheers Rob
On 10/07/2010, at 2:26 AM, Sean McBride wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 05:12:10 -0700, Jerry Krinock said: > >>>> Using the standard Employee/Department example, Whats the best way to >> set a default department for an Employee? >>>> So that every employee is created with a relationship to the >> "mailRoom" department. >>> >>> Probably to add some custom code to AwakeFromInsert in your employee >> NSManagedObjectSubclass to set its own department. >> >> Yes, that works. > > Agreed, but it can be tricky. How, from Employee's awakeFromInsert, do > you get the default Department? One way would be to fetch. I do this > and it's generally fine, except for a bug in NSArrayController: > > 6723165 fetching in awakeFromInsert causes 2 notifications to > NSArrayController > > Looks like this is actually mentioned in awakeFromInsert's docs now. Nice! > > So if you have a tableview (bound to an array controller) of Employees, > adding a new Employee will result in two items in the table (but not > your model). > > -- > ____________________________________________________________ > Sean McBride, B. Eng s...@rogue-research.com > Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com > Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/gumboots%40mac.com > > This email sent to gumbo...@mac.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
