Sections Completing the New or Save As form
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Create a section by selecting Section from the User Interface category.

To mark the new rule as JSR 168 compliant, select a template rule in the Template field to copy for the section.

A section has two key parts:

Field	Description
Applies To	Select a class that this section applies to. In most cases, select the name of the class that contains the work items that the section supports. Choose the class that is most specific to the application and its work items, rather than a general Work- class. In special cases a section can apply to a class derived from the Data-, Embed- or Assign- base class. For example, a section may display properties of the class Embed-OrderDetails, where the work item contains a Page List property named CustomerOrder that applies to the Embed-OrderDetails property.
Purpose	Enter a name for this section. Begin the name with a letter and use only alphanumeric, ampersand, and dash characters to form a Java identifier. See How to enter a Java identifier.

The Template field is optional. Specify PortletSection to create a section that uses portlet-compliant HTML and can be displayed in a portlet window on a portal server through Service Portlet rules.

For general information about this form see Completing the new rule dialog box. For general information on the Save As form, see How to enter rule keys using Save As.

Rule resolution

Full rule resolution applies to sections. When searching for section rules, the system:

• Filters candidate rules based on a requestor's RuleSet list of RuleSets and versions
• Searches through ancestor classes in the class hierarchy for candidates when no matching rule is found in the starting class
• Finds circumstance-qualified rules that override base rules
• Finds time-qualified rules that override base rules

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