[rules-users] Sequential mode help!

[Mark Proctor]

Torfox wrote:
>
> Mark Proctor wrote:
>   
>>     
>>> It seems I have misunderstood the documentation-  the sequential mode
>>> (https://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/drools/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/trunk/target/docs/drools-expert/html_single/index.html#d0e1809)
>>> 3.3.7.1:
>>>
>>> "Order the Rules by salience and position in the ruleset (by setting a
>>> sequence attribute on the rule terminal node)."
>>>   
>>>       
>> Sequential mode first evaluates all of the LHS. Which results in a 
>> single conflict set. It then evaluates the conflict set in salience and 
>> rule order. Modifying values will not result in the LHS being
>> re-evaluated.
>>     
If you want the modification of facts in one rule to impact other rules, 
you need inference turned on.

Mark
>> Mark
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>
> Great, thanks for the explanation. Does it mean, that sequential mode
> shouldn't be used in a scenario, where particular rules modify facts in the
> way that allows other rules to evaluate. Eg. rules 1-10 define "region"
> value by matching zip-codes and rules 11-20 calculate premium based on the
> "region" and customer's age. 
>
> Bartosz
>   

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