Disabled rules

To deploy a study without validating data-entry rules, workflow rules, or global conditions, you can disable the rules in the Central Designer application. Disabled rules are not deployed to the InForm application. This functionality allows you to more easily perform testing for a study during a development process in which forms and rules are being developed collaboratively by different users, by viewing the study in the InForm application, without having to validate rules. Disabling a rule does not prohibit you from performing rule-related tasks, such as editing the rule, and creating and running test cases for the rule. When you run validation, a message appears, listing the disabled rules for the study.

Disabled rules are:

• Not validated.
• Excluded from the deployment package.

Note: You can successfully run a test case for a single disabled rule. However, if you run more than one rule at a time, the Central Designer application will not run the test cases for any disabled rules.

Note: Oracle recommends that you disable rules and workflows only while developing a study. Use the InForm application to disable a rule on a live study.