Fact's Business Object Controls Everything
A fact's business object controls its contents, lifecycle and various other business rules:
Its schema defines where each piece of information resides on the physical Fact maintenance object.
If may define a lifecycle for all fact instances of this type to follow. Each fact must exist in a valid state as per its business object's lifecycle definition.
It may define validation and other business rules to control the behavior of facts of this type.
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For more information about business objects, refer to The Big Picture of Business Objects.