Limitations of the Referencing Rules display

When interpreting the Referencing Rules display, note these limitations:

• In this context, "rule A references rule B", means that one or more key parts of rule B appear in the rule form for rule A. Your system might include many such "B" rules. At runtime, rule resolution determines which of possibly many "B" rules the system accesses and runs.
• All the references shown are valid, but some references to the current rule may not appear.
• The display can include rules that belong to rulesets or versions you cannot execute.
• For performance reasons, the Referencing Rules display of a rule with @baseclass as the Applies To or Class Name key part might be incomplete. All the references shown are valid, but some references on systems with a very large number of rules might not appear.
• For certain rule types, the display is always empty.

Display in the Referencing Rules column

Information presented in the Referencing Rules column depends on indexes. The system updates these indexes only as you save another rule that references this rule.

Rules of some types are not referenced explicitly by any other rules. The Referencing Rules column is empty for these rules types, which include:

• Skill rules
• Service rules (Rule-Service- rule type)
• Declare Trigger rules
• Declare OnChange rules
• Declare Constraint rules
• Declare Trigger rules

References to rules within handcrafted Java (for example, in a Java step of an activity or in an edit input rule), do not appear in either the Referencing Rules or Referenced Rules column.

References to properties, stream rules, and other rules inside directives do not appear in either the Referencing Rules or Referenced Rules column. . (References in JSP tags do appear.)

References to properties through the global resource setting mechanism do not appear in the Referencing Rules display.

Notes

The system saves rule referencing details information as instances of the Index-Reference class, corresponding to rows of the pr_index_reference table.

When you save a rule, the standard Declare Index rule named Rule-RuleReference updates this table to reflect the references in that rule to other rules.

This display is informally known as a bow tie diagram.

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