Hello @Francois Gaudet 

We have to take dependency from systems module where all of the data is available in entities.

I hope this will help

Thanks 

Tousif Khan

So, given an entity, how do I get it's name ?

Hello Francois,

Unfortunately, I don't know any Demonic Incantation for this, but if you want I can show you one that calls forth adorable kittens out of the Void!  :D

Now back to your issue, the entity dependency that Tousif mentioned in the post above is a list of all the entities present on your Service Studio.

With this, you can get the name of all the Entities. 

Now, looking at this from a pragmatic point of view I would suggest creating an Auxilary Entity to store the name of the Entities you need to validate, something like: 

And just use this table on your validation logic. This will allow you to only validate the ones that you need and keep things more decupled in case of a refactor.

Hope it helps!

Paulo Rosário

Hi Francois,

i have made a forge asset to do model based validations, and to do that I needed to know the name of an entity to look it up in the systems table.  Probably very similar to what you guys are setting up.

So look at this component, I made a server action called "WhatAmI" that returns the name of an entity, given a variable of that entity.  You pass in ToObject(yourEntityVariable) and you get out the name.

That sounds pretty close to what you are looking for.

Dorine

EDIT : i just had a look, and apparently it is possible to define this as a function, so you can do this :