AssignmentRule

Represents an assignment rule associated with a Case or Lead.

Supported Calls

This object is read only. Assignment rules are created, configured, and deleted in the Salesforce.com user interface.
Customer Portal users cannot access this object.

Field	Field Type	Field Properties	Description
Active	boolean	Defaulted on create Filter	Indicates whether this assignment rule is active (`true`) or not (`false`).
Name	string	Filter Nillable	Name of this assignment rule.
SobjectType	picklist	Filter Nillable Restricted picklist	Type of assignment rule—Case or Lead.

Field

Field Type

Field Properties

Description

Active

boolean

Defaulted on create

Indicates whether this assignment rule is active (true) or not (false).

Name

string

Filter

Name of this assignment rule.

SobjectType

picklist

Filter

Type of assignment rule—Case or Lead.

Before creating or updating a new Case or Lead, a client application can query() (by name) the AssignmentRule to obtain the ID of the assignment rule to use, and then assigned that ID to the assignmentRuleId field of the AssignmentRuleHeader. For more information, see AssignmentRuleHeader.