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Rule Specification Components

When you create a rule specification, you configure a series of shapes in the Design workspace. The top-level shape stores the name and the general properties of the rule specification. The remaining shapes are rule sets. A rule set contains inputs and rule statements.
The rule set that connects to the top-level shape is the primary rule set. The primary rule set represents the high-level data requirements of the business rule.
The following image shows a rule specification in the Design workspace:
The rule specification contains a series of rule sets that analyze data inputs and that pass data upward to the primary rule set. The properties pane displays the rule statements in the primary rule set. The primary rule set determines whether each input data row is valid or not valid.
  1. 1. Top-level shape in the rule specification.
  2. 2. Primary rule set.
  3. 3. Child rule sets of the primary rule set.
  4. 4. Properties of the rule set that you select.
  5. 5. Rule statements in the rule set that you select.