Assignment Maps

Form ID: (EP205010)

You can use this form to create and edit assignment maps for leads, contacts, business accounts, cases, opportunities, email activities, purchase receipts, requests, or requisitions. For the selected entity type, you create rules, based on properties of the entities, to be used to assign entities to workgroups and to particular employees.

For more information about how you can manage assignment maps, see Managing Assignment and Approval Maps.

Form Toolbar

The form toolbar includes only standard buttons. For the list of standard buttons, see Form Toolbar and More Menu.

Summary Area

You use the elements in this area to create a new assignment map or to select an existing map to view its details.

Element Description
Map The identifier of the assignment map. For a new assignment map, the <NEW> string is displayed, indicating that a new identifier will be generated.
Name The name of the assignment map.
Entity Type The type of entity that should be assigned.

Rules Pane

The pane toolbar buttons are listed in the table below.

Button Description
Add Rule Adds a new rule to the bottom of the list.
Up Moves the selected rule (node) one position up in the list.
Down Moves the selected rule (node) one position down in the list.
Delete Deletes the selected rule (node).
Show Rules Pane / Hide Rules Pane Shows or hides the Rules pane.

Conditions Tab

You use the table on this tab to specify the conditions that must be met to execute the rule. If conditions are not met, the rule is not executed, and the system checks the conditions for the next rule.

Element Description
Description A brief description of the rule.
Active A check box that indicates (if selected) that the rule is active and the system executes it in accordance with the specified conditions. You clear this check box to deactivate the rule, which is then marked with the (Inactive) prefix in the Rules pane.

The table toolbar includes standard buttons as well as buttons specific to the table. For the descriptions of the standard buttons, see Table Toolbar. The table-specific buttons are described below.

Table 1. Table Buttons
Button Description
Insert Inserts a new row above the selected row.
Up Moves the selected row one position up in the list.
Down Moves the selected row one position down in the list.
Table 2. Table Columns
Column Description
Active A check box that indicates (if selected) that the condition is active and the system meets this condition when executing the rule. You clear this check box to deactivate the condition.
Brackets The opening bracket or brackets for enclosing a logical expression. Brackets are used to designate the order of operations.
Entity The entity the assignment map is associated with.
Field Name The name of a field (element) that stores a property of the entity. The property in this field will be compared to the specified value to determine whether the condition is true or false.
Condition The logical operation to apply to the value of the chosen data field. The following options are available: Equals, Does Not Equal, Is Greater Than, Is Greater Than or Equal To, Is Less Than, Is Less Than or Equal To, Contains, Starts With, Ends With, Does Not Contain, Is Between, Is Empty, and Is Not Empty.
Value The condition's first value to be compared with the data field value. Most of the conditions require only one value, while Is Between requires two values.
Value 2 The second value, if required by the selected condition.
Brackets The closing bracket or brackets for enclosing a logical expression.
Operator The logical operator to be used to connect logical expressions of separate lines. Brackets are used to designate the order of operations.

Rule Actions Tab

This tab contains directions for the system to assign a proper owner to a record or document.

Element Description
Assign Ownership To The source of the employee to whom the record or document should be assigned for processing. To select an employee in accordance with the selected option, you use the Employee box below. The following options are available:
  • Employee: Enables you to select an employee from the full list of employees.
  • Employee from Document: Enables you to use a selector tool for drilling down to any level of detail of the underlying document and selecting a system entity that defines the employee.
Employee The employee to whom the entity should be assigned if the conditions in the Conditions tab are satisfied. One of the following options may be available:
  • An employee selected from the full list of available employees, if Employee is selected in the Assign Ownership To box.
  • A system entity that defines the employee, if Employee from Document is selected in the Assign Ownership To box.
Workgroup The workgroup to which the entity should be assigned if the conditions in the Conditions tab are satisfied.