Design an Explanation
You may want to tailor your explanation to improve readability and to make sure the logic in the rules presents sensibly to a user. You may also choose to censor information for a particular audience. To aid traceability you may choose to show references to the source material upon which decisions are made.
After adding an explanation to a screen, you should:
- Check that the explanation contains enough information to explain the answer. This may require adding intermediate conditions and restructuring rules, or using name substitution, or adding hidden information into the explanation. For more information, see Add More Information to an Explanation.
- Check that the explanation does not contain unnecessary information. Silent and invisible operators can be added to attributes to selectively omit the inclusion of lower-level attributes in explanations. For more information, see Hide Information In an Explanation.
- Check the sentence wording. Sometimes the automatically generated sentence forms for an attribute are non-sensical and need to be corrected. For more information, see Change the Sentence Forms Used In Rules, Explanations and Forms.
- Check that number attributes are displaying as desired. By default, these will be shown as formatted values. If you would like a number attribute to display unformatted you need to define it as an Unformatted number in the Edit Attribute dialog.
- Decide if you want any reference tags used in the rules to be shown or hidden in the explanation. For more information, see:
- Change the Appearance of Explanations as required.