An event is an incident or an outcome that can happen in a Prinergy workflow. An event is the trigger for a rule and could define a user, the time of an event, or a job object. For example, an archive event could be Archive Success or Archive Failed.
Every rule set begins with an event that starts an action, and each action in a rule set results in an event.
There are two types of events in RBA:
Trigger events
Events in Prinergy or other software that start a rule set. Every rule set begins with a trigger event. Trigger events are sometimes referred to as root events.
Resulting events
Events that occur as the result of RBA actions—for example, Success or Error. Resulting events are sometimes referred to as generated events.
Resulting events are indicated by icons that appear on the right side of an action. For example, when you generate output, it might result in a success or error event:
When you connect two actions, you are actually connecting the second action to the resulting event of the first action. Resulting events make it possible to link a series of actions in a rule chain.
