Referencing condition literals in action columns in Web based decision table ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: DROOLS-1838 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/DROOLS-1838 Project: Drools Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Guided Decision Table Editor Affects Versions: 5.5.0.Final Reporter: Roman Novak Assignee: Michael Anstis The use case is to avoid reduncancy in entering data in the web based decision table. The redundance occurs, when a "not" condition is used in the LHS of a rule, and exactly the entered condition (in the example rule below it is "demo") should be used/referenced on the RHS of the rule. The solution proposal is: * it is already possible to reference binding variables in Guvnor decision tables via "=". e.g. set the default value of an action column by "=$p.name" (again with the example below in mind).l * it should be possible to reference the actual column content via the mandatory "Column header (description)" field in a way, so that during the generation of the rule code the content of the column in the editor is placed into the action field. * suggestion for (de-)referencing the column: ={<column header>} Example rule to illustrate the problem: declare Address streetName : String end declare Person name : String end rule "Using a declared Type" when $p : Person( name == "Bob" ) not Address(streetName == "demo") then // if the address does not exist, we create it... (just for example) Address addr = new Address(); // how can the streetName "demo" from above be referenced ? in a normal rule it is not possible! (scope delimiter "not") addr.setStreetName("demo"); insert( addr ); end