Programming Microsoft® Office Business Applications

Customizing Business Rules

So far, we’ve explored sample scenarios that have well-known business rules. For example, in the expense report scenario, the business rules are always the same. This workflow solution defines the direct manager as a single approver, and the content of the notifications is predefined as well. Depending on the expense total value, the workflow solution will either send a notification to the manager or to the accounting department. However, there are many real-world applications that have complex business rules. Routing for approval can depend on many business variables, and notifications can change depending on some other variables. Imagine that in the same expense reporting solution, you have to route an expense report ...