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The Rule Overrides report identifies any rule names that are in both of two sets of RuleSets.

Your development team can intentionally created an activity, property or other rule in two separate RuleSets. For example, you may have created a rule in a RuleSet associated with a framework RuleSet, and later created a rule in a specific implementation RuleSet, to override and replace the capabilities of the first rule.

As another example, experience may lead to the conclusion that the RuleSet that initially contained a specific rule is not, in hindsight, the best choice from a maintainability or accountability perspective. Copying that rule — even if unchanged — into a higher RuleSet puts the rule in the "right" place.

Often, however, finding two rules with identical names in two RuleSets is an accident or error. At runtime, only the rule in the higher RuleSet (on a user's RuleSet list) is found and executed. Capabilities intended to be provided by the rule in the lower RuleSet are not available.

Use this report to locate such potential issues.

NoteHaving two rules with the same name in separate versions of one RuleSet is common, reflecting the ordinary progression of development work.

Completing parameters  

Complete the Filtering criteria.

Select one or more checkboxes in the Base column. Usually, select RuleSets that are lower in a RuleSet list.

Select one or more checkboxes in the Masked by column. Usually, select RuleSets that are higher in the RuleSet list than those checked in the Base column.

Typically, do not check both boxes in one row.

Check the Output parameter to group report results by rule type.

Click Submit.

Definition RuleSet list
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