Field and Region Display Control with Business Rules
You can use business rules to control field and region display.
Business Rules enable you to do these actions:
- Maintain valid data and ensure data quality by reducing errors.
- Build more efficient HR processes that end users can trust by offering a simple user experience, without having to understand the complexity of HR policies.
- Make work faster, easier, and more manageable by showing only the relevant, most appropriate content that in turn drives engagement and productivity.
Business Rules enables you to apply similar changes that you previously made in Transaction Design Studio and Page Composer, when required, while also introducing the new capability to make a field read-only. Here's a recap of what you can control at the field and region level.
| Capability | Field | Region |
|---|---|---|
| Optional or required |
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For processes such as Promote and Change Position |
| Hide or show |
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| Editable or read-only |
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Not Applicable |
With numerous usability improvements compared to Transaction Design Studio, Business
Rules offers a user-friendly extensibility tool, enabling HR professionals and
administrators to make changes without the need for extensive programming skills. Now,
let's highlight some of the differentiating features of Business Rules.
This table lists the extensibility features of the Business Rules Editor.
| Serial Number | Extensibility Feature |
|---|---|
| - | Rule List Alongside Configuration - Quick and easy navigation between rules for rules comparison, or mass updates by seeing the list of rules and rule details side-by-side. |
| 1 | Filter Rule, Region, and Field Names by Rule - Productive personalization tool by reducing number of clicks and scrolling with filter capabilities for rules, regions, and fields. |
| 2 | Filter Rules by Region and Field with Overrides - Productive personalization tool by reducing number of clicks and scrolling with filter capabilities for rules, regions, and fields. |
| 3 | Activate or Deactivate All Rules - Examine out-of-the-box behavior by deactivating all rules in one click (for debugging purpose). |
| 4 | Filter Region and Field by Rule - Productive personalization tool by reducing number of clicks and scrolling with filter capabilities for rules, regions, and fields. |
| 5 | Only Display Regions and Attributes with Overrides - Quickly identify at a glance all changes for a given rule in one click. |
| 6 | Identify Overridden Attribute and Region and the Number of Overrides Per Region - Quickly identify visually the changes for a given rule. |
| 7 | Identify all Rules that Apply to a Region or a Field - Quickly identify at a glance all rules applying to a given region or field with a single click. Evaluation is done from bottom to top and property by property. If many rules apply to a same population, the rule with the highest position in the rule list wins. |
| - | Manage Flexfields Similar to Other fields - Simplified representation of pages' regions and fields in an organization tree for all fields, including flexfields. |
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Make a Field Required and Hidden - Simplify HR processes to show only what matters to your employees. Note: A field marked as hidden can be rendered as visible at
runtime. If a value isn't present, the field will be displayed to
the user to enable them to proceed.
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Let’s learn how to do these actions conditionally:
- Hide or show a region
- Hide or show a field
- Make a field read-only
- Hide or show a devloper flexfield (DDF) segment
- Hide or show an extensible flexfield (EFF) context