Any Context Scope

The any context scope enables you to create context mappings that can be used across all root context scopes. For example, instead of creating separate context mappings to evaluate the status field across orders, quotes, and opportunities, you can use any context scope to evaluate the status for all root entities, including orders and quotes. You can also specify any as the entity for second-level context scopes, enabling you to evaluate information in accounts and contracts across all root entities.

While the any context scope allows more flexibility and efficiency when defining context mappings, in some cases, when you know that the value can come from only on sObject, you might want to explicitly specify that object as the root scope entity. By doing so, you limit the number of fields that are retrieved and stored in the session cache. When the context scope is Order.Account, the rules engine retrieves fields from the account sObject only. If the context scope is Any.Account, the rules engine retrieves fields from all root entities: Order, Opportunity, Quote, and Asset. For example, the Originating Channel field only exists on the Order object. If you specify Any as the root entity for Originating Channel, the system will look across all root entities even though it only exists on Order, which is not an efficient design.