13 Common Rule Management Tasks

This chapter focuses on the Rule Management Tasks that are common across all rules in this application. The Rule Management Tasks that are common to business rules in this and other OFSAA applications.

Topics:

• The Rule Summary Page
• Search for Rules
• Create Rules
• View and Edit Rules
• Copy Rules
• Delete Rules
• Dependency Checking

You can perform these tasks from the Summary page for the type of rule with which you are working. Depending on the rule type, some tasks might not be available.

The procedures for carrying out these tasks are the same for each rule type, except for rule-specific steps explicitly stated in the rule-specific documentation.

• The Rule Summary Page
  The Rule Summary page is the gateway to all rules and related functionality of the application. From there, you can navigate to other related pages.
• Search for Rules
  Search for a business Rule to perform any of the following tasks:
• Create Rules
  You create a Rule to specify the way you want a particular task or business process to be carried out by the application.
• View and Edit Rules
  You can view existing rules, and you can edit existing Rules, provided you have read and write privileges.
• Copy Rules
  You can copy rules to avoid having to enter data multiple times. This saves time and effort and also reduces mistakes.
• Delete Rules
  You can delete rules that are no longer needed. Once deleted, a rule cannot be retrieved.
• Dependency Checking
  You can check dependencies for rules to know where a particular Rule, Dimension, Member, Attribute, IRC has been used. In addition, this prevents accidental deletion of rules having dependencies.