Refreshing dynamic columns
In the business workplace the refresh button in the workflow inbox is not refreshing the dynamic columns. How can we set it to refresh the dynamic columns?

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Dynamic columns are fairly inefficient and hence the fact that BOR attributes are buffered is probably a good thing. This inefficiency is rarely a problem as most people don't have a large number of work items in their inbox. However, for those that do, dynamic columns can bring their business workplace to a pretty slow pace.

Most likely the reason that the data is not being refreshed is because of run time buffering in the Business Objects. I suggest you put a breakpoint in the relevant attributes and see whether the data is being reselected from the database when the user refreshes.

This was first published in January 2008