Just a personal experiment, whilst trying to debug an issue with creating Records in HPE Records Manager, and how the order seems to matter. The subject of this test is a RecordType which has the Enclosed field defaulted to ticked, or "yes". When enclosed is ticked, the Assignee becomes the Record's Container.
A full writeup of the issue is on my blog.
The bug being tested is when a user tries to untick Enclosed, and set their own Assignee, those settings appear to be ignored, and the Enclosed remains ticked. I suspected that the order in which the fields are applied to the record mattered, and this experiment was to check that.
This solution requires the various versions of HP.HPTRIM.SDK.dll for each version I was testing - TRIM7, RM81, RM83, and CM9, which I haven't included because of licensing. But, I'm assuming if you care enough to get here, you have access to such files yourself. You'll need to put them in the _dependencies folder, or just remove the existing HP.HPTRIM.SDK project reference and add your one instead.
It's a .Net Framework 4.6.1 Console app that, after you supply the following:
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Record Type
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Container
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Assignee (Current Location)
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Is Enclosed (y/n)
It will try all permutations of setting Container, Assignee and IsEnclosed and output which sequences worked, and which failed.
RecordType name or uri:> 503
Container name or uri:> 15W/1
Assignee name or uri:> 514
Enclose record in container? (y|n):> n
-> Container-> Assignee-> Enclosed
SUCCESS >>> Container: correct -> Assignee: correct -> Enclosed: correct
-> Container-> Enclosed-> Assignee
SUCCESS >>> Container: correct -> Enclosed: correct -> Assignee: correct
-> Assignee-> Container-> Enclosed
FAILED >>> Assignee: WRONG -> Container: correct -> Enclosed: WRONG
-> Assignee-> Enclosed-> Container
FAILED >>> Assignee: WRONG -> Enclosed: WRONG -> Container: correct
-> Enclosed-> Container-> Assignee
SUCCESS >>> Enclosed: correct -> Container: correct -> Assignee: correct
-> Enclosed-> Assignee-> Container
FAILED >>> Enclosed: WRONG -> Assignee: WRONG -> Container: correct
The results of my experiment showed that the order does matter in RM 8.3 - in that as long as Assignee is set after Container, everything is OK (and the order of Enclosed doesn't matter).
Running this program on TRIM 7 and RM 8.1 environments showed that all permutations failed - there's an underlying issue with TRIM/RM, which I confirmed using their own thick client. (The user would have to save an orginal "Enclosed" record, and then edit it to un-enclose and assign as needed).