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Defining Combined Specialization Rules

A combined specialization rule combines more than one action to generate a single rule. The actions are combined as AND statements so that the rule is defined as:

You can create combined rules and use them with several managers, instead of duplicating a complex rule each time.

There are two kinds of Actions you may use to build a combined rule; Exclude and Include. Each action is defined by one line within the rule. Combining the specialization lines or individual actions defines the overall combined rule.

An Exclude action overrides a Include action.

For example, you can define an Exclude application program x action and a Include user Yvonne Jones action. Combining these two actions generates the combined rule "read all requests from user Yvonne Jones except requests to run program x". See: Combined Specialization Rules.

Combined specialization rule actions, their binding logic, and examples are presented in the following table.

Combined Specialization Rule Logic - Examples

Combination Rule Include Lines Result
Include Program X Run only program X
Include Program X Run program X
AND ...and
Include User Sam Run requests by User Sam
  Net result: Run only Sam's requests for program X.
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Combination Rule Exclude Lines Result
Exclude Program 37 Do not run program 37
Exclude Program 37 Do not run program 37
AND ...and
Exclude User Sam Do not run requests by User Sam
  Net result: Do not run anyone's requests for program 37, and do not run Sam's requests.
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Combination Rule Include and Exclude Lines Result
Include User Sam Run requests by User Sam
AND ...and
Exclude Program 37 Do not run program 37
  Net result: Run all of Sam's requests except requests to run program 37.
Include Program Application General Ledger ( Run General Ledger Programs
AND ...and
Include User Sam Run requests by User Sam)
---------- AND ...and
Exclude Program 37 ( Do not run program 37
AND ...and
Exclude Program 38 Do not run program 38)
  Net result: Run Sam's requests for programs from the application General Ledger, except programs 37 and 38.
Table 1 - 17. (Page 1 of 1)

See Also

Specializing Managers to run only certain programs

Defining Specialization Rules

Using Combined Rules

Differences Between Specialization and Combined Rules

Concurrent Managers field help

Combined Specialization Rules field help

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