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Scope on a Power Platform Business Rule

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I had a problem: how to conditionally impose validation constraints on a field? Business Rules are an ideal way to achieve this.

The problem was they span layers according to their “Scope” setting.

The available settings are:

SettingScope
All FormsIs applied when any Form for the entity is open.
(specific form)Is applied only when a specific Form is open.
TableIs applied across layers, into the Dataverse – and is applied at that low level, so even when Flows are running, etc.

If you stumble (like I did) on Business Rules applying validation on Forms but which should only be applicable for UI interactions, choose “All Forms”.

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