This field is used to define externally to the rule the allocation rules of the Workflow recipients. It refers to a rule table which defines a list of fields impacted by the allocation criteria of the recipients.
A rule is evaluated when the Workflow is triggered, based on the context, and it returns one or several users defined in the [L]USER local variable table. This makes it possible either to define a list of recipients for a given Workflow or a sequence of recipients in the case of chained rules.
It should be noted that:
- when an allocation rule is defined in a Workflow rule, all the recipients are evaluated based on those criteria defined and stored in the [L]USER table.
- When no allocation rule is defined, but the Workflow rule is of type Signature, the values of [L]USER calculated in the event at the source of the signature (these values are stored in the history) are inherited. Should the need arise to reevaluate the allocation rule of origin (because criteria values may have changed), this allocation rule needs to be reentered into the Workflow rule.