Common names for rules

For rules, this help system and other materials use ordinary English words to refer to a single rule of a specific rule type. These words are known as common names for the rule types. It is simpler to say or read:

 Find a property that has ...

than

 Find an instance of the Rule-Obj-Property rule type that has....

Most common names are familiar and unlikely to cause confusion:

• A property is one rule of the Rule-Obj-Property rule type.
• An activity is one rule of the Rule-Obj-Activity rule type.
• A fragment is one rule of the Rule-HTML-Fragment rule type.

Other common names are less natural or less obvious. For example, the common name for Rule-Obj-When instances is not when, it is when condition.

Here's a more complete list:

An X...	... is a rule of the Y rule type ...
access role	Rule-Access-Role-Name
Access of Role to Object	Rule-Access-Role-Obj
activity	Rule-Obj-Activity
agents rule	Rule-Agent-Queue. Don't confuse with Data-Agent-Queue.
alias function rule	Rule-Alias-Function
binary file rule	Rule-File-Binary
class	Rule-Obj-Class. To distinguish Java classes from Process Commander classes, the word Java always appears in help topics when referring to Java classes.
connector rule	Any of the Rule-Connect- classes
constraints rule	Rule-Declare-Constraints
correspondence rule	Rule-Obj-Corr
correspondence fragment	Rule-Corr-Fragment
decision table	Rule-Declare-DecisionTable
decision tree	Rule-Declare-DecisionTree
Declare Expression	Rule-Declare-Expressions
field value	Rule-Obj-FieldValue
flow	Rule-Obj-Flow
flow action	Rule-Obj-FlowAction
fragment	Rule-HTML-Fragment
function	Rule-Utility-Function
harness	Rule-HTML-Harness
HTML rule	Rule-Obj-HTML
HTML Property rule	Rule-HTML-Property
library rule	Rule-Utility-Library
list rule	Rule-Obj-List
list view rule	Rule-Obj-ListView
map value	Rule-Obj-MapValue.
message rule	Rule-Message. Don't confuse message rules with a message — an element on the clipboard.
method	Rule-Method. In this help system, the phrase "Java method" distinguishes Rule-Method rules from Java methods.
model	Rule-Obj-Model
Parse Delimited rule	Rule-Parse-Delimited
Parse Structured rule	Rule-Parse-Structured
Parse XML rule	Rule-Parse-XML
portal rule	Rule-Portal
privilege	Rule-Admin-Privilege
product rule	Rule-Admin-Product
property	Rule-Obj-Property
property alias	Rule-Obj-Property-Alias
property qualifier	Rule-Obj-Property-Qualifier
RuleSet	Rule-RuleSet-Name
section	Rule-HTML-Section
service level	Rule-Obj-ServiceLevel
service rules	Any of the Rule-Service- classes
setting rule	Rule-Access-Setting
skill rule	Rule-Access-Skill
summary view rule	Rule-Obj-SummaryView
text file rule	Rule-File-Text
ticket	Rule-Obj-Ticket
validation rule	Rule-Obj-Validate (not Rule-Edit-Validate)
version	Rule-RuleSet-Version
when condition	Rule-Obj-When (not the same as Rule-Access-When). Don't confuse when conditions — rules — with the <pega:when > JSP tag.
work parties rule	(Always plural). Rule-Obj-WorkParties.
XML rule	Rule-Obj-XML

	Common names for individual data instances
	Atlas — Standard rules

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