Preparing for modifying rules
Adjust your application to your unique business scenario by modifying existing rules. As a result, you save resources, such as time and money, and deliver software that precisely meets your business requirements. You can also delegate a rule so that non-IT stakeholders can perform needed changes.
Before you modify a rule, you need to check out the rule to ensure that no other developer modifies the same rule at the same time. If your business requirements change, you can revert to the previous state of the rule, or completely delete the rule.
- Checking out a rule
To avoid accidental rule changes or conflicts that might result from multiple developers working on the same rule, perform a check out, so that you can lock the rule and safely make changes to it. By checking a rule out before editing, you avoid unwanted rule changes, and as a result save time and maintain a better quality application.
- Restoring the earlier state of a rule
During application development, you can undo recent changes to a rule and replace the current rule with a previous copy, even if another developer created the newer copies.
- Creating guidance for developers
Create internal documentation to provide guidance to the developers who implement or extend your application.
- Delegating a rule or data type
To delegate a rule or data type to enable your business line to configure simple application logic without involvement from IT, complete the following steps.
- Deleting a rule
Save disk space by deleting rules that are no longer relevant in your application. For example, during application development, you create a field property to capture a phone number, but later you need to capture multiple phone numbers. You create a list property, and then delete the field property. As a result, you improve the extensibility and user understanding of your application by providing only the rules that your application requires.
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