Working with escalations
You use escalations to automatically monitor the critical
processes in your enterprise. You can also use escalations for events,
such as contract expiration, a change in the status of a records,
or a change in the ownership of a record.
Creating escalations
You create an escalation to monitor time-sensitive records that could require action. You can create an escalation for any business object and for any application. You can create escalations at the organization or site level.
Validating escalations
You must validate an escalation record before you can activate it. Validation checks the Structured Query Language (SQL) statements to ensure that the SQL is valid and that the escalation engine can run it.
Activating escalations
You can activate an escalation record that has at least one escalation point and one action or notification defined for each escalation point. The product polls for records meeting the criteria set by the escalation. If a match is found, the appropriate action is triggered.
Modifying escalations
You can change existing escalations.
Deactivating escalations
You deactivate an escalation record to modify the record or to delete it.