Distribution Lists Overview

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Workflow uses distribution lists to place employees into groups for message routing purposes. You assign users to a distribution list and then define the event rules of an Information or Action task to determine how messages will be sent to the members of that list.

Distribution lists are based on an address book number and a structure type. The address book number serves as the parent node of the distribution list. The members of the distribution list are then organized as children under this parent address book number. How you set up the children is dependent upon the type of processing that you want to use.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Workflow uses two different types of processing to route messages to members of a distribution list: group processing and hierarchical processing. Group processing sends messages to the members of a distribution list one group at a time. These groups are defined when you create the distribution list. Hierarchical processing sends messages to the members of a distribution list based on the organizational hierarchy defined in the distribution list.