Overview

Comparison Rules allow users to construct business rules by comparing one Workflow Attribute against another attribute or a static value. They are widely used through the system to govern things such as:

Workflow access control
Field visibility
Data entry validation

Technical Details

Different comparison operators are supported for different data types:

= Supported / = Not supported

= Data type is optimized for bulk operations

(n) = Changed in 13.1

Table below includes a column titled “String Can Be Compared To”, which shows whether a data type can be used with Short Text, Long Text, Template, Email, or Tag List fields in comparison rules involving Equals / Not Equal and Contains / Not Contains. The other columns reference the specific operators available for the data type.

Data Type	Optimized for bulk operations	Empty / Not Empty	Equals / Not Equal	Contains Text / Not Contains Text	String Can Be Compared To	True / False	Greater / Less Than / Between	Contains Item	Extended Properties / Special behaviors

Data Type	Equals / Not Equal	Contains Text / Not Contains Text	String Can Be Compared To	Extended Properties / Special behaviors
Activity Container				Total activity count Total completed successfully Total completed unsuccessfully Total incomplete
Activity Filter
Activity Lookup
Assessment Definition
Assessment Instance				Assessment Status Pass / Fail
Autonumber
Boolean
Competency Classification
Date				Comparison to date offset
Date Stamp				Comparison to date offset
Date Time				Comparison to date offset
Discussion
Email	(n)	(n)	(n)
Entity Image
Entity List
Image
Long Text
Learning Plan Instance				Completion Status Instance Id Workflow Status
Member
Multi-select				Comparison to Numeric Offset
Multi-Tenant Select
Numeric
Payment
PD In Focus Source / Display
Pearson VUE SSP				Although Empty and Not Empty are available, since this datatype does not store data there is not business case to do a comparison using this datatype.
Picklist			(n)
QR Code
Rating
Rating Summary