Rule Ranking and Number of Winners

Rule rank, parent's rule rank, and position within the rule hierarchies enable the classification and crediting processes to identify the winning rules when evaluating transactions.

Depending on how you configure direct credit rules, the crediting process might identify multiple winners. In the case of classification, only one rule is selected as the winner for a hierarchy from the list of matching rules. Participant role assignment rules match criteria to assign roles to participants.

Create, manage, and deploy these rules:

• Classification rules in the Compensation Plans work area

• Direct credit rules in the Participant Assignment work area

• Participant role assignment rules in the Manage Participant Assignment Rules work area

Use rank and rule position to specify the priority of a rule among multiple winners.

• Rank should be a positive integer.

• Rules lower (for example, a leaf) in the hierarchy have an inherently higher priority than those higher in the hierarchy.

• If no rank is specified for a rule, then the rank is considered as the highest number (99999999) and hence, the lowest priority.