Rule Evaluation

In Aware IM rules are evaluated if either of the following happens:

An instance of a business object is created (provided that there are rules attached to this business object)
Value of an attribute of a business object instance is modified (provided that there are rules attached to this business object)
A process implemented by rules is started
Aware IM receives a notification (provided that there are rules associated with this event)
A notification is created (provided that there are rules associated with this event)
Scheduling rules are triggered by a timer event – see Scheduling

So what exactly do we mean by saying that “rules are evaluated”? Essentially this means that Aware IM starts checking whether rule conditions are met and if so begins execution of the corresponding actions. Before we explain how this happens for a number of rules, let us have a look first at the evaluation of a single rule.