About Planning business rules

A Planning business rule enables you to specify criteria to perform a validation process on data records. You can specify the highlighting colors that AVEVA™ Production Management applies to invalid records in the Production Analyst results grid.

Business rules are similar to threshold ranges. They enable you to define a criteria so that when that criteria is true for records, AVEVA™ Production Management highlights those records to bring them to the attention of the operator. While threshold ranges bring quality information to the attention of the operator, you can use business rules to bring a wider range of matters to the attention of the operator, such as the following:

• Missing or invalid values that require correction by the operator.

• Values that fall outside of planned values.

Notes:

• If both business rules and threshold ranges are applied to the same Planning record in AVEVA™ Production Management, the threshold coloring overrides the business rule coloring.

• The cell coloring of the State column overrides the coloring of highlighted records.

• If two business rules are triggered to highlight a record, the display order in Studio determines which business rule has priority.

Related topics

• Add and configure a Planning business rule

• How to set up Planning