Setting Up Attribute Eligibility Checking

This topic describes the high-level steps for setting up attribute eligibility checking.

Writing a Custom PSP Procedure to Check Eligibility

You can use a given procedure to evaluate one attribute or many attributes:

• Use conditional statements to use one procedure to evaluate multiple attributes that have different evaluation criteria.

• Or create one procedure for each attribute.

Typically, the custom procedure includes the following steps:

• In a step of the PSP procedure, log the Context property set.

• In a step of the PSP procedure, log the RowSet property set.

• In a step of the PSP procedure, set all rows to Eligible by default before evaluating the row set:

  • This step uses the Row Set Transformation Toolkit business service, Conditional Action Transform Method.

  • Input arguments are shown in the following table.

    Input Argument	Type	Value	Property Name
    On Default 1	Literal	{Row.Eligibility Status} = LookupValue('PEC_ELIG_STATUS_CD','Y')
    Row Set	Process Property	Not applicable.	Row Set

  • The output argument is shown in the following table.

Property Name	Type	Value	Output Argument
Row Set	Output Argument	Not applicable.	Row Set

• In one or more steps of the PSP procedure, check attributes for eligibility:

  • This step uses the Row Set Transformation Toolkit business service, Conditional Action Transform method.

  • Input arguments include conditional statements that check whether the value entered is eligible.

  • Output arguments set rows to ineligible if these conditions are true.

• In Administration - Order Management, then the Message Types view, define the error message.

• In Administration - Order Management, then the Payload view, create payload variable records.

• In a step of the PSP procedure step, assign context and rowset values to the message payload variables.

Creating the Attribute and Assigning It to a Product Class

Create the attribute and assign it to a product class in the usual way, described in Process of Creating Products with Attributes.

In the Administration - Product, Product Classes, Version, and then the Attributes view:

• In the Check Eligibility field, select the checkbox for any attribute whose eligibility you want to check.

• In the Eligibility Procedure field, select the custom PSP procedure that you created to check the eligibility of this attribute.