I delete a rule

For a rule that you no longer want to use with a study, you can delete, deactivate, or disable the rule. The behavior of the rule in the Oracle InForm application depends on the action that you choose.

Tip:

When deploying to Oracle InForm release 6.1.1 or later, you must create a deployment instance in order to see the behavior described in this topic. The deployment instance allows Oracle Central Designer to communicate with Oracle InForm to determine the rule states and update them accordingly.

When you delete a rule, Oracle Central Designer removes the rule from the study. Deleted rules are not validated or deployed to Oracle InForm.

• If you deploy to an Oracle InForm release prior to release 6.1.1, the rule is not deleted in Oracle InForm.
• If you deploy to Oracle InForm release 6.1.1 or later, Oracle InForm marks the rule as Inactive when you deploy your study. The rule does not appear in the Oracle InForm user interface.

  Note:

  If you deactivate a rule in any release of Oracle InForm after deployment, it is not deleted in Oracle Central Designer. As a result, if you do not delete, deactivate, or disable the rule in Central Designer, the next time you deploy the study, the rule is deployed to Oracle InForm in the Active state.
• If you create the deployment instance after the baseline, the change will not be applied to Oracle InForm and the rule will remain in the state it was in previous to it being deleted in Central Designer.

  If you are using manual deployment, the deployment instance must be created prior to creating the baseline in order for the deletion of the rule to take effect in Oracle InForm.