Rule types
ConceptfoundationThe six formula and template types that configure time validations, processing and compliance, separated by what data each reads and what each is permitted to write.
What people get wrong
The confusions are the difficulty. Each one is a belief that sounds right and is not.
- That a rule in the wrong type reports an error. It produces nothing, and the silence looks like a broken rule.
- That the delivered template and function names live on the rule-types page. They are published in a separate fast formula reference document.
Recall it
Name the six rule types used to configure time validations, processing and compliance, and say which one derives rather than warns.
Advanced time category, Time calculation, Time device, Time entry, Time submission and Workforce compliance. The time calculation rule derives: it creates or updates entries and produces calculated results, where a time entry rule validates and generates a message instead.
Memory hook: Entry asks, Calculation answers, Device listens. What it may write is what separates them.
Rests on OTL-RULES-010, OTL-RULES-011.
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