[rules-users] Creating template column in guvnor for attribute value?

I'm using Guvnor 5.4 I find myself sometimes wanting to use templates to map a string to a metadata value or timer. For example, based upon a name, set a value for the timeout. As far as I can tell however, the only way to create a template column in guvnor is to include the column identifier in the LHS. For example, I have a basic rule template that checks a name (there is only a "name" column in the template matrix). Then, I click on options, add a timer and give it a value of "@{timeout}" I get an error - the timeout column does not exist in the template. However, if I write a dummy expression on the LHS like "foo" not matches timeout, the timeout column is created and everything is great once I set the value. If I delete the predicate that uses timeout, I get an error again for the timer attribute. This gets really ugly because I end up having (seemingly) useless predicates. Is there a clean way to support this functionality? Thanks, -J -- View this message in context: http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/Creating-template-column-in-guvnor-for-... Sent from the Drools: User forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com.