Collaboration with Other Users
When you design a rule specification, you create an object for the Developer tool users in the organization. You must cooperate with the Developer tool users so that the users apply the rule specifications to the correct data sources. You must also understand the Developer tool terminology.
The Analyst tool stores rule specifications in the Model repository. When you create a rule specification, you select a project in the Model repository as the location for the rule specification object. When you are ready to pass the rule specification to the Developer tool user, you compile the rule specification in Rule Builder. Rule Builder saves a copy of the rule specification in the Model repository. The Developer tool user works on the copy of the rule specification object. In the Developer tool, the object copies appear as mapplets.
The Developer tool user adds the mapplet to a mapping. A mapping is a run-time object that applies the mapplet logic to a data source. The mapplet writes the results of the mapplet analysis to a database table or a file.
The Developer tool user sends you the results. You evaluate the results to determine if the business data conforms to the business rule. If the data does not conform to the business rule, the Developer tool can configure an additional mapping to update the data.
Note: If you update the rule specification and compile the rule specification, you update the corresponding mapplet in the Model repository. If you update the rule specification but you do not compile it, you do not change the corresponding mapplet in the Model repository.
You cannot view mapplets in the Analyst tool. A Developer tool user cannot view rule specifications in the Developer tool.