Choosing an Automation Strategy—ALL, FIRST, or INDIVIDUAL
Automation Strategy determines which Rules (and how many Rules) get fired to handle events.
For example, an event might match the selection criteria for more than one Rule. If you decide that you want all the Rules to fire, you must specify the strategy ALL.
If you decide that you do not want all the Rules fired, you must choose a different strategy. The different strategy names are as follows:
- ALL
- FIRST
- INDIVIDUAL
If you choose an Automation Strategy of ALL or FIRST, all Rule Sets are searched for Rules to match a certain event. You can specify ALL or FIRST for each of the Rule Sets on this panel.
Choose a strategy of INDIVIDUAL if you want to set an Automation Strategy for each Rule Set.
If you do not select a strategy, the default is FIRST.
Selecting ALL
Selecting an Automation Strategy of ALL means that all the Rules within all Rule Sets that match an event will be fired.
When you select this strategy, potentially more than one Rule can fire to handle a single event.
Selecting FIRST
Selecting FIRST means that only the first Rule that matches an event will be fired.
If you select FIRST, the order of your Rules within a Rule Set and the order of Rule Sets in the Automation Library is very important because this order determines which Rule fires first.
Selecting INDIVIDUAL
If you select the INDIVIDUAL Automation Strategy, you can specify that each Rule Set has its own strategy of FIRST or ALL. The default value is FIRST. In this case, you can have several Rule Sets that will use FIRST and one Rule from each Rule Set can fire.
In other words, the strategy of Rules are applied for each Rule Set instead of for all active Rule Sets.
Use the Rule Set Overview Panel to select a strategy for a Rule Set.