Should I Be Concerned About my Row Rule

Epicor ERP 10
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So, I have a Row Rule and I added code to change the background color to Orange instead of using one of the Setting Styles. Everything works fine except when I go back into the Customization screen. Every time I open it I get the following error.

Application Error

Exception caught in: mscorlib

Error Detail 
============
Message: Length cannot be less than zero.
Parameter name: length
Program: CommonLanguageRuntimeLibrary
Method: Substring

Client Stack Trace 
==================
   at System.String.Substring(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length)
   at Ice.Lib.Customization.CustomCodeParseManager.ParseRuleActionCode(CustomizationLanguage custLanguage, String raCodeLine, RuleActionInfo raInfo)

Should I be concerned that this might cause an issue down the road? Everything compiles fine and the rows are highlighting orange. I just don’t want to mess up the system in some unknown way. Here is the code that (I think) is causing the error.

private void CreateRowRuleCurrentWorkCheckBox03Equals_true()
	{
		// Description: CWFAI
		// **** begin autogenerated code ****
		ControlSettings controlSettings = new ControlSettings();
		controlSettings.IsReadOnly = false;
		controlSettings.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Orange;
		controlSettings.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Black;
		RuleAction errorCurrentWork_RowAction = RuleAction.AddRowSettings(this.oTrans, "CurrentWork", true, controlSettings);
		RuleAction[] ruleActions = new RuleAction[] {
				errorCurrentWork_RowAction};
		// Create RowRule and add to the EpiDataView.
		RowRule rrCreateRowRuleCurrentWorkCheckBox03Equals_true = new RowRule("CurrentWork.CheckBox03", RuleCondition.Equals, true, ruleActions);
		((EpiDataView)(this.oTrans.EpiDataViews["CurrentWork"])).AddRowRule(rrCreateRowRuleCurrentWorkCheckBox03Equals_true);
		// **** end autogenerated code ****
	}
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It’s when it’s trying to add it to the tree in customization mode. Remove the comments from that method and see what happens.

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Still not working. I am going to try a Custom Action instead. I’ll report back.

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This here is where I have seen things go sideways when you start messing with row rules manually. If going that route I don’t use the wizard at all to stop the parser from freaking out.
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Something concise on these lines

private void PromiseDatePast_Rule()
    {
        var action = RuleAction.AddControlSettings(this.oTrans, "V_WCI_Dispatch_1View.JobHead_PromiseDate_c", SettingStyle.Error);
        var rr = new RowRule("V_WCI_Dispatch_1View.JobHead_PromiseDate_c", new RowRuleConditionDelegate2(PromiseDatePast_Condition), "Check", new RuleAction[] { action });
        edvV_WCI_Dispatch_1View.AddRowRule(rr);
    }
    private bool PromiseDatePast_Condition(Ice.Lib.ExtendedProps.RowRuleDelegateArgs args)
    {
        return (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(args.Arg1.ToString()) && DateTime.Parse(args.Arg1.ToString()) < (DateTime)args.Row["JobHead_DueDate"]);
    }
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@jkane - when I use your code, testing (on the ABC form) yields:

Error: CS0118 - line 64 (168) - 'Ice.Lib.ExtendedProps.ControlSettings' is a 'type' but is used like a 'variable'

where line 64 is

RuleAction highlightAbcCode_RowAction = RuleAction.AddRowSettings(this.oTrans, "AbcCode",true,ControlSettings);
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@jgiese.wci Awesome! Thank you.

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That needs to be a lower case c

controlSettings

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D’ Oh!

After fixing that, it compiles and runs as expected. Or does it always work when launching in developer mode, and only fails when that customization runs in normal mode?

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It actually does not fail at all. Everything works and compiles fine. I was getting that error when I would do Tools-Customization.

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