Working with Rule Collection

Rules (or rule collections) are displayed as a table where each row in the table displays the name of the rule and its textual representation. The table (with its toolbar) is displayed in the top half of the screen. When you select a particular rule the rule editor for the selected rule is displayed in the bottom half of the screen and the properties of the selected rule are displayed in the Selection Property window (see the picture below):

To add a new rule click on the icon in the toolbar at the top to the table. The Rule Dialog will be displayed where you can specify the name of the new rule and then the new entry will appear in the table. You can then enter the text of the rule in the Rule Editor below and set its properties in the Properties window.

To edit an existing rule click on the rule entry in the table and modify the text of the rule in the Rule Editor below and/or set its properties in the Selection Properties window.

To delete a rule, click on the rule entry in the table and then click on the icon in the toolbar at the top of the table.

To change the order of rules in the rule collection, select the rule and press the Up or Down icons at the top of the table. Note that changing the order of rules in a collection is only relevant to rule collections implementing processes that have “Maintain rules order” flag checked – see Adding/Editing Processes.

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If you are editing rules attached to a business object Aware IM checks the names of the objects used in rules. If you use an object name different from the name of the object that the rules are attached to, Aware IM may issue a warning message when the rules are saved. This behaviour safeguards you against mistakes when specifying object names in rules. If you intentionally specified a name different from the name of the object that the rules are attached to (for example, to use some other object in the Context) you may ignore the warning message.

The text of individual rules is specified in the Rule Editor displayed below the rule collection table when a particular rule is selected.

The Rule Editor has two tabs – Standard View and Textual View. The Standard View and the Textual View tabs are two different ways of representing a rule. You can switch between the tabs to see how the same rule is represented in both views.

Irrespective of which tab you are in, the following rule properties are always visible:

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