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Business Rules are executed when under the following conditions:
- When the form/flow loads
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- When a control's value that the rule depends on changes.
- When you add a row to a Table control or click on the
icon to add a repeating item.
If you want your rule to run Only when the form loads - check the Initialization Only checkbox at the top of the wizard. You may want Typically, you would check this if there is some business logic that you want to to execute before the form/flow displays and users begin interacting with it. Refer to Example 3 below.
When the rule displays in the Rule Builder tab, it will indicate that the rule has been flagged to run only when the form loads, if this checkbox is checked. This feature will be helpful for creating rules in future versions of the Visual Rule Builder.
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Example 2:You are designing an Expense Report workflow that has a total of 3 steps. Steps 2 (Manager Approval step) and step 3 (Accounts Payable step) are Linked Steps.
Rule Requirement: The section named Accounts Payable Only should only show if the workflow is on the Accounts Payable step. It should not be visible when the workflow is on the steps performed by the employee or the manager. The Condition, Action and Else Action wizards for this rule are shown in the image. The dropdown for the current step value displays the linked steps as choices.
This is how the rule displays in the Rule Builder tab.
The image shows what the user sees when the workflow navigates to the Accounts Payable step.
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Example 2:You are designing an Expense Report workflow that has a total of 3 steps. Steps 2 (Manager Approval step) and step 3 (Accounts Payable step) are Linked Steps.
Rule Requirement: The section named Accounts Payable Only should only show if the workflow is on the Accounts Payable step. It should not be visible when the workflow is on the steps performed by the employee or the manager. The Condition, Action and Else Action wizards for this rule are shown in the image. The dropdown for the current step value displays the linked steps as choices.
This is how the rule displays in the Rule Builder tab.
The image shows what the user sees when the workflow navigates to the Accounts Payable step.
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