How scope controls the running of business rules

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:

Figure 4.32 – Business rule scope

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...