[rules-users] Fire Rules in DT based on a rule in DT

[Steven Williams]

I added agenda-group to decision tables in September 2006.

cheers
Steve

On Nov 14, 2007 6:50 PM, Arjun Dhar <dhar_ar at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>  I have the following scenario.
>
> SCENARIO (simplified for discussion from actual blown up scenario)
> ---------
>  1. A decision table (DT) with rules for "all types of employees" - Call
> it "Common DT"
>  2. The DT mentioned in Point 1 has a condition that fetched data
> depending
> on "Type Of Employee"
>
>  3. There are other decision tables that would like to use the the rules
> from "Common DT", but here are the challenges:
>
> Challenges
> ----------
> 1. Decision does not support Agenda Groups
> 2. Using a fact; to hold the evaluated result from a DT can pass it from a
> child to a parent; but it requires an "update()"; which can cause infinite
> recursion if i dont have a "Execute ONE Rule Only from Table" decision
> variable.
>
> (Parent) DT - Condition 1, condition 2, Condition 3 (Actually result of
> Child
> DT)
>
>
> (Child DT)
> ... The relation is maintained using decision variables.
>
> This relation works perfenctly good (been working for 3 months now), but
> issue
> is it creates a Sort of a Tree (with each node a DT); in shich I cannot
> fire a
> common set of rules from Any Node.
>
> As an alternative; I'm suggesting to the client to write replicated DT's
> for
> each type of employee instead of 1 generic DT.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> I've been begging for agenda Groups in decision tables but I guess you
> guys are
> tied up. So at a design level can you suggest a work around?
>
> Thanks,
> Arjun
>
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