Setting up a routing policy (deprecated)

One of the options when routing the runtime tasks that are generated by BPD activities, is to establish a routing policy.

1. Open the Process Designer desktop editor (deprecated).
2. Open a process application that contains a business process definition (BPD).
3. Open the diagram of your BPD and select the activity that you want to route.
   Note: The activity that you choose must already have an attached service.
4. Go to the Assignments page in the properties view.
5. From the Assign To list, select Routing Policy (Deprecated).
6. Under Routing Conditions (If), click Add a column to select the variable to use to begin specifying conditions.

   When defining routing conditions, you create a table in which each column represents a variable and each row represents a rule.

7. From the displayed list, choose the variable for which you want to specify a condition.
8. In the first field in row 1, enter the value to compare to the variable.

   For example, if you choose a variable called customer (String) in the preceding step and that variable holds customer names, enter a customer name in the field.

9. If you want to add another variable to the routing condition, click Add a column and choose a variable from the displayed list. Enter the value to compare to the second variable.

   The following examples illustrate the syntax for possible values in the variable columns:

   Table 1. Routing conditions

   Enter...	To match...
   "ok"	The exact string, ok (no quotation marks)
   >100	Any number greater than 100
   <100	Any number less than 100
   !=3	All numbers except 3

10. If you want to establish advanced routing rules, select Adv. When you establish routing rules, you create specifications that determine who receives the runtime task, such as only those users who have a previously defined user attribute.

    To establish rules, click Add Rule in the Advanced Assigned To (Then) section of the Routing properties, and see Deprecated: Defining rules for instructions.

    Note: IBM Business Process Manager creates only one set of rules under Advanced Assigned To (Then) for the entire Routing Conditions table. If you want to remove a rule after you define it, click Advanced Lane Participant in the Assign To field in the routing conditions table to display the rule or rules for that routing condition. Under Advanced Assigned To (Then), click the bullet before the rule that you want to remove, and then click Remove.
11. If you do not select Adv, the Assign To field in the routing table shows the default assignee, Swimlane, which means that the runtime task is routed to the team assigned to the swimlane in your BPD. If you have multiple teams defined in your current process application, you select one of those teams from the menu.