Visibility of Rules

Every navigation path to view a rule in OFSAA begins with a Summary window. Within the Summary window for each rule type, you can browse through all of the rules that are stored within Folders to which the user has access. From each Summary window, you can be granted the ability to Add, Edit, View, or Delete rules.

When building rules in an OFS Analytical Application, you frequently call upon other OFSAA rules (for example, a Data Element Filter nested within an Allocation rule or a Hierarchy utilized within a Transfer Pricing rule). When nesting a child rule within a parent rule you must specify the child rule by its Name and Folder (where both Name and Folder are presented in the drop-down lists). In this context, the Folder drop-down list for every user includes every Folder in the Information Domain, regardless of the Folder access rights. This means that a user can invoke a child rule from any Folder even if the user cannot access that child rule directly through its Summary window.

Additionally, whenever a user nests a parent rule within a child rule, the OFSAA user interface provides the user with the ability to view a read-only version of the underlying child rule.