Common Data Service for Apps – Business Rules (Server-Side Logic) – Part 6

With Spring 2018 release, Microsoft introduced several types of server-side logic including Business Process Flows, Workflows, Calculated & Rollup Fields and Business Rules which do not require any coding. Part 5 of this series covers Calculated & Rollup Fields. In this blog we will explore Business Rules.

Business Rules: Declarative logic comprises of conditions and actions for data accuracy and consistency across applications. Business Rules provide a nice graphical UI for defining these rules and actions that will be executed synchronously when a record is created/updated. These rules are created at entity level in common data services, hence you do not need to write separate logic for individual apps (canvas & model driven apps)

You can perform below actions using business rules:

• Set field values
• Clear field values
• Set field requirement levels
• Show or hide fields
• Enable or disable fields
• Validate data and show error messages
• Create business recommendations based…