Have you considered the simple fact that a month may have between four (full) and six (one or two fractional) weeks? Reminder objects ought to have a field identifying the week; if they have its easy to count them per week if they are simple facts in WM.<br>
<br>Note that the identificaton of weeks by running number per year also has up to two fractional weeks.<br><br>-W<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Brody bach <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brodybach@yahoo.com">brodybach@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi all,<br>
<br>
I'm having difficulty in defining a rule for the following problem:<br>
We need to check if within a week there are more than 5 objects of type<br>
Reminder inserted into Memory.<br>
(one day corresponds to one object)<br>
The number of the inserted objects depends on the usage of the application.<br>
That means there could be nothing, 1, 2, or any number of the objects.<br>
Before, within a session, I inserted a list containg data from within one<br>
week (7 days).<br>
Than I can check using the rule:<br>
when:<br>
$list : list(size > 5)<br>
Reminder() from $list<br>
no String(trim == "limit reached");<br>
then<br>
System.out.println("This rule fires");<br>
insert new String("limit reached");<br>
<br>
Now I need to insert a list containing data from a whole month, but I still<br>
need to check whether within one week there are more than 5 reminders exist.<br>
<br>
so, the constraint list> 5 can't be used anymore for a single list. I tried<br>
to break the whole list in several smaller list, where each list represents<br>
one week.<br>
Now the problem is, if the rule fires for a certain week, than it won't work<br>
for the following weeks anymore.<br>
<br>
My idea is then to insert an integer containing specific number to the<br>
current list, i.e. the calendar week (i.e insert new Integer(52)) and then<br>
to prove this in LHS; but the problem is now how to prove the week number in<br>
LHS? as I remeber, a function can only be called within an eval statement<br>
and in this case actually I should only prove the existence of an Integer<br>
<br>
Hope my explanation is quite understandable and looking forward for any<br>
hints<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
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