[rules-users] Short-circuit rules by group?!

[Michael Neale]

activation-group may be what you are looking for. For things in the one
activation group, only one rule is guaranteed to fire.

eg: activation-group "NIKE" ....

its an attribute like no-loop etc.

On 2/14/07, jdepaul <jjdepaul at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>
> I have several rules defined in groups by Customer, so I have number of
> rules
> for Walmart, some rules for NIKE, more rules for SomeCustomer...  When one
> of the rules matches for a given customer I need to send an event
> notification.  I need to make sure that I send only ONE event notification
> per Customer (regardless of how many rules were matched), thus after
> finding
> the very first match in the Walmart group, I'd like to activate a rule,
> and
> then short-circuit and "Skip" to the next group of rules for NIKE - to see
> if any of the matches are found in the next group.
>
> I've implemented this functionality using a Match object, which I assert
> into WorkingMemory whenever I find a match for customer, then all my rules
> check for absence of Match for given customer...
>
> This works, but I wonder if there is a better way to do it - using Agenda
> Groups, maybe - once I find ONE match for Walmart, skip to the next Agenda
> Group?!  Could someone comment on this?
>
> THanks,
> James
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