Wow. Its been nearly one year since I posted to this blog. That is a terrible track record. Hopefully I will make up for some lost time with this one.

One of the questions that sometimes comes up in my training classes is about where to store criteria for a Biz Rule. So if the approval limit for a manager is 1000 euros today and changes on a quarterly basis, where should that info go. If you hard code it to the model, then you have to recompile the model every time your approval limits change.

It would be a whole lot better if you could have an external configuration file that defined those limits and then queried the file every time you go to an approval. That's what I am demonstrating in this video. In fact I am doing it from an external class library that I am linking in to the model, though I didn't really need to do it that way.

Check out the video and let me know what you think.

http://revver.com/video/1151631/using-an-external-configuration-file-with-a-captaris-workflow-model/