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The Explorer tools present lists or a tree in the workspace. You can interact with the toolbar and the list or tree to learn more about the rules or objects presented.

  Workspace elements

When you use an Explorer, the workspace may contain three relevant areas:

The first two are input controls that together determine the results displayed in the workspace.

To explore:

  1. Use the Explorer tree control to identify and select a single class.
  2. Make a selection in the type selection box.
  3. Make a selection in the scope selection box.
  4. Review and interact with the results, visible in the workspace.
  5. Select any row of the list (or for properties, an element of the tree). Click to open the corresponding rule.

  Using the Type picker

Type pickerThe Type picker a type of rules or data instances to be found for the class selected in the navigation panel. The default value is Instances.

Select Instances when you have selected a concrete class in the tree control and you want to list all persistent instances of that class. Click to choose a category, then a rule type or data class.

  Using the Scope selection box

The Scope selection box Scope Selection is used only when searching for rules and a class is highlighted in the navigation panel.

When searching for rules, set the Scope selection box to control how much of the class structure above the current class the system searches to find rules.

  Working with the List view display

The list view display lists rule instances, data instances, or other instances, typically sorted by first key part. For properties, numbers within parentheses identify sibling rules.

For most classes, you can filter the display to present only those which contain specific values in one or more key parts. Use the magnifying glass (Search ) to access a list of values. GRP-349

For example, when listing activities, enter "cover" in the Applies To Contains field and click Run to see only those activity rules that contain the five-letter sequence "cover" within the Applies To key part.

Page controlLists of instances of a single class are presented in groups of 10 pages of 50 items each. TASK-1270B-14781 KARAF 3/8/06

  Working with the Property tree

If you select Properties in the rule type selection, a tree appears in the right panel. The tree display uses these icons to identify the mode of the property:

Page Group Page List
Page Single Value
Value Group Value List
Java Object Java Object Group
Java Object List  

Numbers within parentheses on the tree indicate the number of siblings.

Click the property name to open the Property form for that rule. Right-click the property name to see the RuleSet versions defined. Select one version with the mouse pointer and click to open that version.

Expanded portion of property tree Click the plus sign next to any Page, Page Group or Page List property to see the properties it contains. C-1245 The tree shows the class of the page or pages that contain the next level of properties. For example, in the partial tree displayed here for the Work- base class, above, the pyLevel property is of class Embed-CompensatingActionNode-.

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