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Activities and clipboard page names

Use the standard activity @baseclass.Show-Harness to display harness forms. This activity and the standard harness rules expect to find (by convention) objects on the following page names:

NoteThese page name conventions need not apply to applications that do not depend on harness rules; the work object page may have any name established in the flow. KHATV Clinic 6/21/05

Java code display

When you save a harness rule, the system converts your HTML and JSP tags or directives to Java source code. As a learning or debugging aid, you can review this Java code.

C-1665Click the Show Java toolbar button (Show Java) to see the system-generated Java code that implements the harness rule. The window presents a read-only preview of the Java that implements this rule instance. This Java code is not identical to the Java that executes at runtime, which includes Java code inlined from other rule instances and reflects rules in the requestor's RuleSet list.

Preview and Run

After you save this rule form, click the Preview toolbar button (Preview) or type the equivalent keyboard shortcut CTRL+ALT+P to see a more faithful split-screen presentation of the runtime appearance of the harness. (Many harness rules depend on context. Even when the rule is correctly configured, the Preview display may fail and report JSP errors if this harness rule depends on clipboard contents that do not exist or other rules that cannot be found.) BUG-7472 rejected

Click the Run toolbar button (Run) to test the harness with data from the clipboard. See How to test a harness rule.

As with the Layout tab, the system renders both the Preview and Run displays using the styles of the skin rule identified in the Skins field of the Run Process In group of your General preferences. If the Skins field is blank, these displays use the styles marked Work on the Styles tab of the skin identified in your current portal rule. See Designer Studio — Setting your preferences. 5.5 GRP-503

Parent class

Through directed inheritance, the immediate parent class of the Rule-HTML-Harness class is the Rule-Obj-HTML class.

Security

If your application RuleSets contain harness rules that are not auto-generated, run the Rule Security Analyzer before locking a RuleSet Version, to look for possible security issues.

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