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Completing the Pages & Classes tab

Many types of rules can access or update information on various clipboard pages when they run. Most of these rule types include a Pages & Classes tab that you can use to provide important information about what your clipboard pages will look like during execution.

Guidelines

To complete a Pages & Classes tab, follow these guidelines:

Run-time processing

The pages that are present when a rule is running might vary from execution to execution. The system neither requires nor checks that all the pages listed are present each time it runs the rule. It only determines it can find the properties needed to perform the current execution.

In some situations, the class of a page may vary from execution to execution. If all the properties referenced are available in a common parent class, you can list the parent on this tab, even though the page belongs to a subclass.

For example, an activity may operate on a page named Customer that, in some situations, has the class Data-Account-Savings and in other cases has the class Data-Account-Checking. If all the properties that the activity needs — for example CurrentBalance and AccountOpenDate — are defined in the Data-Account- class, you can list Data-Account- in the Class column.

However, if the activity needs to access both checking and savings data at once, the activity needs to work with two pages — one of each class — with distinct page names.

Identifying pages in your application

Managing the number and names of clipboard pages referenced in your application is important. Using too many pages or omitting to remove the pages when no longer needed can add to the run time memory demand of your applications. Misspelling page names or having two copies of one page (with different names) can also hurt performance or make testing difficult.

Click Designer Studio > Data Model > Clipboard > Undefined Pages to access a list of the named pages used by the current application.

Special cases

Certain rule forms offer more capabilities for greater power and flexibility: