Business Rules Control Order

[PointsWell]

I meant to add this a while ago but forgot.

Business rule execution is completely arbitrary and random, so you have no way to force certain rules to execute in order.

There is a work around though if you add an attribute to act as a flag, e.g. BO.StepFlag. Can either be a numeric or a text attribute with options.

eg StepFlag

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Choice     Value
Start        S
Step1 done   1
Step2 done   2
Complete.    C

Next have your business rules trigger as

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IF BO IS NEW THEN BO.StepFlag='S'

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IF BO.StepFlag WAS CHANGED TO 'S' THEN DO SOME THINGS
BO.StepFlag='1'

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IF BO.StepFlag WAS CHANGED TO '1' THEN DO SOME MORE THINGS
BO.StepFlag='2'

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IF BO.StepFlag WAS CHANGED TO '2' THEN DO THE LAST THINGS
BO.StepFlag='C'

You've now imposed order onto randomly executing business rules.

[customaware]

You can also set the Priority for each Rule to get something important to execute prior to some other Rule.

In on particular BO I ordered the Rules the way I wanted then Set Priority starting at 100 and progressing down in steps of 5 (just in case I wanted to
add a new Rule in between later)

Failing that..... Take all the Rules out and put them in a Process.... This is MUCH faster also as there is no iterative evaluation of the Rules going on.
Just all sequential.