Business Rule in CRM

There are three levels of scope:

Scope	Where it runs run
Entity	All forms and server
All forms	All forms
Specific form	Just that form

 In the top right of the form, use the Scope field to set the scope for the rule. “Entity” scope level is new in CRM 2015. Setting the scope of the business rule at an entity level, forces the business rule executed on both server and clients side.

 For example, on update of an entity record we will set “Description” field mandatory based on some conditions. So in this case we can create Business rule as below:

Business Rules #1

• Server Side Validation

 To test this business rule validation on server side, we create a real time workflow to update this record which should trigger the validation logic:

Trigger the workflow from a record and get below error message immediately:

The record cannot be saved due to “Business Process Error”:

Download log file and we can find the trace details:

 <TraceText>

[Microsoft.Crm.ObjectModel:Microsoft.Crm.ObjectModel.SyncWorkflowExecutionPlugin]

[1769c1b5-1784-e411-80c5-00155d016814: ] Starting sync workflow ‘Test Scope of Business Rule’, Id: 0e69c1b5-1784-e411-80c5-00155d016814

Entering UpdateStep1_step: Sync workflow ‘Test Scope of Business Rule’ terminated with error ‘Attribute ‘new_description’ cannot be NULL’

</TraceText>

 Client Side Validation To test this business rule in client side, we just simply update the record on the form and the error message show up as expected:

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