PCG 7: Flow Rules help

E-Bus 11i Flow Rules Help
Hi I need to create a flow rule that will notify an employee's supervisor when a user updates their own employee record.
So I need to link the LAST_UPDATED_BY of the currently updated record to employee_id from FND_USER
where the FND_USER.USER_ID = <current>.LAST_UPDATED_BY
I'm looking at my Flow Rule Launch Criteria, but I cannot see how I can say....
COLUMN=LAST_UPDATED_BY
CONDITION=Equals
VALUE= <result of my SQL> <==========
It looks like I can only put specific hardcoded values in here ??
Any ideas, or examples for this type of thing?
Is my requirement clear?
Thanx
Russell Foster

Hi Foster
In the launch criteria you can specify under the table name FND_USER, Relationship keys would be (USER_NAME, USER_ID)
please check the check box "UPdate" uncheck "Insert"
coming to the columns enter value "LAST_UPDATE_BY" and condition "IS Update"
the value part cannot be updated.
The launch criteria created specifies that when ever the colum Last_update_by of FND_USER is updated the flow rule will get fired.
Please try and let me know if u face any issues
thanks

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