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Setting Up a Business Rule Template |
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If you want to create a number of business rules with similar content and structure, you can create a business rule template, and protect (freeze) parts or all of a template so that they cannot be edited in the business rules created from the template.
If you change the freeze/unfreeze settings in the template, you can use a specific command to reflect the change in the rules created from it. However, if you change the template content, you can reflect these changes only by manually updating the associated business rules.
You build business rules in a template in the same way that you create a normal business rule, except that:
To create a business rule template:
templates folder in your rule project. If you want to save your template to a folder inside the templates folder, click Browse in the Folder field and navigate to the required folder.
Freeze parts through the Business Rule Template Guided Editor.
To freeze and unfreeze one or more parts of a business rule template:
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| If you keep the same structure, the freeze information is kept. However, the freeze information is lost if you change the structure of the rule. |
You can also freeze the whole template. This action freezes everything except the place holders. These are still shown in blue, indicating that you can still edit them.
To freeze or unfreeze the whole template:
To propagate changes to a template's freeze/unfreeze settings:
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that allows policy managers to change whether they edit a value or select an item. To allow them to make this choice, unfreeze the symbol.