Toolbar

The Rule Designer toolbar is displayed above the toolbox and workspace.

It contains the following:

•      Workspace name: if the currently-displayed Rule Designer workspace has not been saved, the read-only text ‘Workspace’ is displayed to the left of the toolbar.

If the Rule Designer contains a previously-saved workspace, its name is displayed instead.  The name is updateable, mandatory and can be a maximum of 100 characters.

•      Add new Rule or Panel to the current Workspace: clicking this button displays the Rule Designer Start Page, which is documented separately.

•       Review: this button allows you to review the standard and/or basics selection rules displayed in the Rule Designer in a standalone Selection Rule Review Window.  It is enabled when one or more rules or panels are displayed in the workspace.  Invocation when one or more standard or basic selection rules are shown displays the Selection Rule Review non-modal Window, which is covered separately.  If no standard or basic selection rules are shown, the Window is not displayed, and an advisory message is presented instead

•       Open: clicking this button displays the Open Rule, Panel, Scorecard or Workspace File System Dialog.  You can navigate accessible folders in the RPI file system to locate one or more files that you wish to open.  Selection rule, analysis panel, realtime decision, decision scorecard and workspace files are shown.  Having selected one or more files of a type other than workspace, you can click OK to open them in the Rule Designer.  You can only open a single workspace at a time.  You can also double click a file to open it.  Clicking Cancel closes the File System Dialog without opening a file.

•       Save Workspace: RPI allows you to treat a Rule Designer workspace as an autonomous object that can itself be saved to the RPI file system.  By saving a workspace, you can open it at a later date and continue working with the files that were displayed there when it was saved, even if the files therein were not saved.

Two options are supported at this button and its attendant dropdown menu:

o  Save the current Workspace: saves the current Rule Designer workspace contents as a file within the RPI file system.  If the workspace has yet to be saved, Save behaves as Save As.

o  Save the current Workspace as...: displays the File System Dialog, allowing you to specify a folder within which to save the current Rule Designer workspace contents as a file within the RPI file system.

Workspaces are covered in more detail elsewhere in the Rule Designer documentation.

When a previously-saved workspace is shown in the Rule Designer, the following are also shown at the toolbar (for more information, please see the Framework documentation):

•       File Version

•       Follow File

•       File Options

o  View File Information

o  Open File Location

•       Linked Page Options

•       Refresh Workspace: clicking this button gets counts or refreshes all appropriate rules and/or panels displayed in the workspace.  Displayed files are not refreshed if invalid.  Not that this option has no effect at realtime decisions and decision scorecards.

•       Workspace Actions:

o  Expand All: clicking this button displays all rules or panels open in the current workspace in an expanded state.

o  Collapse All: clicking this button displays all rules or panels open in the current workspace in a collapsed state.