More about Application rules

Where used at runtime

During log in, the system assembles a RuleSet list for a user from up to four application rules, those referenced in:

• A requestor type instance (Data-Admin-Requestor)
• The user's organization (Data-Admin-Organization)
• The user's division (Data-Admin-OrgDivision)
• The user's access groups (Data-Admin-Operator-AccessGroup)

When effective

In a production setting, use care in updating application rules. After you save an Application form, active requestor sessions on the current node that are associated with that application are immediately updated, the equivalent of logging out and logging in again. This can affect not only the RuleSet list of these requestor sessions but other security and operational factors determined during log in, such as locale, organization, and operator availability. Requestor sessions at other nodes in a cluster are similarly updated when the next system pulse occurs on their node.

In Version 4, changes to an application rule affected only those requestors who logged in after the change. Active requestors were not affected.

Security audits

Using the optional security audit feature, your application can present in the History Details display which values were added, updated, or removed from this rule when it was saved. See How to enable security auditing for rule or data changes.

Version locking

Although application rules are associated with a RuleSet, they do not belong to any specific version of that RuleSet. Locking a RuleSet version (by checking the Lock this Version box) does not prevent later changes to application rules associated with the RuleSet.

Clipboard page

The reserved page Application on the clipboard holds most of the contents of a requestor's current application rule.

Conversion of older access groups

Access groups created before Version 4.2SP2 do not reference application rules. This approach remains supported but deprecated, as it may lead to many distinct RuleSet lists across the user community — perhaps not all intended — and adversely affect caching and performance. For guided assistance in converting access groups based on a list of RuleSets and versions to access groups based on application rules, select Tools > Convert Operators to Rule-Application.

	RuleSet list
	How the system assembles and uses your RuleSet list
	Atlas — Standard application rules

About Application rules