rule logical functions disabled

Hi,

Activity variables are only available to the activity it resides in and the lines originating directly from this activity. Thus you will not have a handle on these from a subsequent activity.

If you need to check statuses of previous activities in the preceding rule of a specific activity, I would suggest creating one or more process variables, set these variables to applicable statuses in a server event in the preceding activities and then check against these in the preceding rule of the subsequent activity.

You can only use the logical functions for variables that may have more than one instance of the variable for a single process instances, thus only Activity variables have this functionality. For Process datafields there can always be only one instance of the var, so it doesn t make sense to have logical functions for Process datafields.

You will not have a handle on previous activities datafields from other activities (like you know) so that rules the logical function for activities other than the current one.

Since this is a preceding rule, the actual events that can set the activity datafield values have not executed yet, so the activity datafields can only be their initial values, so again that makes testing against activity variables redundant. You ll see that you cannot select activity variables to set your preceding rule condition for this reason.

Conclusion, for preceding rules, you can only use Process datafields to test other activities statuses and you can t use logical functions for Process datafields. Use Process datafields to check current status of your process.