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Guidelines for Customizing the Sample Knowledge Base

This topic provides guidelines for customizing the sample knowledge base. The sample rules for Oracle Customer Hub (UCM) Privacy Management solution are intended to be a template for a customer-specific implementation of business policies. You can modify, simplify, translate, replace, or use them as a design model as dictated by customer needs. However, by following the guidelines on customizing the sample knowledge base, the process of integrating future releases of Oracle Customer Hub (UCM) Privacy Management solution can be simplified.

• Insert rules into the existing CUST customer specific modules in the sample knowledge base whenever practical. The sample CUST modules contain rules and tables that either require customization for each customer or are intended to isolate customizations from the prepackaged solution. To the extent that these customizations involve rules specific to multiple jurisdictions, the jurisdiction prefix must be included in the modules.
• Customize instances of rules in customer installations, such as owner type, FINCORP account type or customer type, and so on. If the instances are different, then the changes can be done in the knowledge base only. To the extent that further modifications to entities or relations in the conceptual role model are required, then these modifications must be done in the Siebel Repository and copied to the knowledge base, using Siebel Object Importer. Siebel Object Importer does not remove the old concepts and relations, because it is better to identify them using the version custom property or a comment.
• Modify the standard sample rules when necessary. You must identify your own rules in the new customer-specific modules by adding an appropriate prefix. The modified or deleted sample rule can easily be retained for history as a draft rule by inserting unrecognized text at the beginning or by changing the effective date of the rule to be expired. In addition, using the custom version property provides an additional means of identifying your customization.

  By following these guidelines, you can identify the customizations if a customer wants to integrate the features of future releases of the knowledge base.