A Hidden Rule Around Business Rules in CRM 2013

This is a re-post from a colleague - credit must go to Martin Miller at OA Systems for this sage piece of advice...

2013 business rules fail to work when you reference a field not present on the form.

This is a gotcha if you are relying on business rules with a wide scope across multiple forms.

Not only does the business rule not complete, it does not do anything and in fact does not even throw an error.

So you cannot hope that some of your business rule will work if you reference a field not on form, none of it works, it is as though it never happened.