Family name

The family name of a rule is the text string consisting of all the key parts concatenated with exclamation points, excluding the Applies To or class name portion. For example:

• Two activities named Work-MyCo-Mortgage.Reopen and Work-MyCo-.Reopen both have REOPEN as the family name.
• When a binary file rule has three key parts defined as webwb, pegalogo, and gif, the family name is WEBWBPEGALOGOGIF.

The family name for some rule types appears on the Referencing Rules display. RuleSet and Version are not part of the family name. The creation date and time are not part of the family name.

The family name is sometimes called the rule identity. This value is an internal representation of the visible key.

Circumstance properties and family name

If two rules with the same Applies To class and family name are both unqualified and each has one or more associated property circumstance-qualified rules, the same circumstance property must be used. For example, if activity MyClass.Alpha has an associated circumstance-qualified rule using property BodyIndex, then another activity MyClass.Alpha cannot have a circumstance rule with any property other than BodyIndex. B-19418 rejected and ERNSG 7/21/06

	circumstance, internal key, visible key
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