Strategy rules
Completing the Create, Save As or Specialization form

Records can be created in various ways. You can add a brand new record to your application or copy an existing one. Existing rules can be specialized by creating a copy into a specific ruleset, against a different class or (in some cases) with a set of circumstance definitions. Data instances may be copied but do not support specialization as they are not versioned.

Based on your use case, the Create, Save As or Specialization form is used to create the record. The number of fields and available options vary by record type. Start by familiarizing yourself with the generic layout of these forms and their common fields:

• Completing the Create form
• Completing the Save As form
• Completing the Specialization form

This help topic then identifies the key parts and options that are applicable to the record type you are creating.

Create a strategy by selecting strategy from the Decision category.

There are two typical patterns when creating a new strategy:

• Strategy using propositions
  • Use the Business Issue and Group drop-down lists to select the applicability of the strategy in the context of the proposition hierarchy. Select the business issue and, if applicable, the group.
  • The level at which the strategy is created (top level, business issue or group) determines the properties it can access. Strategies for which business issue is not defined apply to all business issues and groups in the context of the proposition hierarchy.
• Strategy without propositions

  • Enable the Choose Strategy Result Class option to select a data class that is indirectly derived from Data-pxStrategyResult.

  • If left blank, the strategy result class is automatically considered to be the top level class of your application.

Rule resolution

When searching for rules of this type, the system:

• Filters candidate rules based on a requestor's RuleSet list of RuleSets and versions
• Searches through ancestor classes in the class hierarchy for candidates when no matching rule is found in the starting class.

Time-qualified and circumstance-qualified rule resolution features are not available for this rule type.

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