Rules Settings

The following table describes the information and options that are displayed on the General tab of the rule Property Editor.

Element	Description
Name	The name of the rule that was provided when the rule was created.
Description	An optional description of the rule.
Validate for use in a report filter	Ensures that the rule can be used as a report filter. This option is selected by default for all new rules that you create; clear the check box if you intend to create rules that will not be used as report filters.

A rule that contains an application variable or field-to-field comparison is not available for use as a report filter at runtime. Use the Validate for use in a report filter option depending on your intent for the rule:

Select this check box to receive warnings while you work with the rule and validation errors on deployment (if the rule should continue to be coupled with and used as a report filter). This ensures that any change to the rule will still allow it to be used as a report filter.
Clear the check box if you intend to use the rule for purposes other than as a report filter. For example, clear the check box if you want to use an application variable or field-to-field comparison in the rule. As a result, for any report filter in Work Center that originated from a rule in SBM Composer, the following occurs:
- After you clear the check box, change the rule, and then deploy the process app, the report filter is not deleted from the reports that use it; instead, the report filter is simply decoupled from the rule, and henceforth managed exclusively in Work Center. The filter is now editable in Work Center and set to Public access.
- After you clear the check box, any further changes to the rule in SBM Composer will have no impact on the filter that exists at runtime, and the report filter and its conditions are now editable in Work Center. Changes made to the report filter in Work Center will have no effect on the rule in SBM Composer.

Rules Settings

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