Setting evaluation and rule criteria

The evaluation criteria determine how the rule is to be evaluated in order for it to be triggered. The rule criteria determine the change in the data that will cause the rule to be triggered. Let's look at this in detail.

We navigate to the Workflow Rules page, as shown in the following screenshot (which we learned about in the Creating workflow rules section):

As you can see in the preceding screenshot, there are several sections included on this page:

1. In section (1), we enter Rule Name and Description based on the business use case.
2. In section (2), we set the evaluation criteria, from the following three options:
   • created: This means the rule is evaluated anytime, and only when, a record is created.
   • created, and every time it's edited: This means the rule is evaluated anytime a record is created and anytime the record is edited...