Business rules have an option called scope that you set in the action bar in the business rule designer. The scope defines under which circumstances a business rule is applied.
The scope is set in the designer using the action bar, as shown in the following figure:
The previous screenshot shows the scope set to Entity. This is the default when using the maker portal.
The scope defines the situations in which a rule is applied. The options are as follows:
- An individual named form
- All forms
- An entity
An entity can have multiple forms with different users accessing different named forms. If you choose a named form for the scope, then the business rule will only be applied when users are in that form. The business rule will not be applied to the other forms.
A restriction of the scope selection is that Microsoft only lists Main forms. You cannot have a business...