IBM FileNet P8, Version 5.2.1            

Activity step - rules

When business rules are used in a workflow, you can assign appropriate rule sets to an activity step.

To specify rules for an activity step

  1. Select the appropriate activity step, then click the Rules tab in the Properties pane.
  2. On the Rules tab, specify the Type—when the rule will execute at runtime.
    • Before Execution - The specified rule set will execute before the step is enqueued.
    • On Save - The specified rule set will execute any time that the participant saves the step.

      CAUTION   It is strongly recommended that you do not use Asynchronous Rules with OnSave option because a step which was previously locked will be automatically unlocked after the rule has been executed, which might cause unexpected behavior in your application. When a rule executes asynchronously, the work item is removed from its queue, put into the isi queue for execution by the vwisi process, and then returned to the original queue. During this procedure, it is not possible to retain the lock on the work object, so after the asynchronous rule executes, a work item that was previously locked will no longer be locked by the user. This issue does not apply for rules executed asynchronously Before Execution or After Completion of the step.

    • After Completion - The specified rule will execute after the step is completed.
  3. From the Available RuleSets table, select a rule and click the right arrow to add it to the Selected RuleSets table.


Last updated: October 2015
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