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Make a distribution rule for one source or channel

Limit the rule to certain channels, such as a branch’s WhatsApp number, with Sessions, or to sources such as “Facebook form” with a Source condition. A limited rule is more specific, so it’s checked before general ones.

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Before you start · for owners and managers
Create or edit distribution rules
  • You need: Create or edit distribution rules

Steps

1
Open the rule.
2
In Sessions, choose the numbers or Pages the client came from. Empty means all sessions.
3
To limit the rule to a source, add a condition under Filters: the source field, Equals, and the source, such as “Facebook form”. See Add conditions and AND/OR groups to a distribution rule.
4
Save.

How it works

Limit
Matches when
Doesn’t match when
Sessions
The chat that created the client came from one of the chosen sessions.
The client didn’t come from a chat.
A Source condition
The record’s source is one of the chosen values.
The record has no source.

If you use sessions and a Source condition together, both must be met.

Sources for ad forms

Clients from Facebook and Instagram forms carry the source “Facebook form” or “Instagram form”. Clients from TikTok forms have no source, so a Source condition won’t catch them. To tell them apart, use a condition on the “Lead Form” field instead.

The effect on order

Sessions add 10 points to the rule’s specificity, and a Source condition adds 5 like any condition, so the rule comes before general rules. See Which distribution rule wins? Most specific first, then priority.

If something goes wrong

What you see
Why
What to do
The rule doesn’t catch Facebook clients
The condition uses an old source option, or the unit has no source field.
Choose the current “Facebook form” in the condition. See The Source and Lead Form fields: where each client came from.
WhatsApp clients go to the general rule
The session isn’t chosen, or the chat is on another number.
Check Sessions in the rule.

A real example

Basma Clinics
The situation

Each branch has a WhatsApp number, and they want each branch’s employees to get messages to their own number only.

What they did
  1. A rule for each branch, limited to the branch number’s channel, with assignees from the branch’s employees.
  2. A general rule for the other sources, for the call center.
The result

Messages to the Dammam number go to the Dammam front desk, and the rest go to the call center.

A made-up company, to show the idea. The numbers are rounded.

Good to know

A record with no source doesn’t match a Source condition.
A record that didn’t come from a chat doesn’t match a rule limited to sessions.
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