[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBRULES-821) ValueList in rule model

Fri Jul 6 11:30:52 EDT 2007

    [ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-821?page=comments#action_12368055 ] 

Michael Anstis commented on JBRULES-821:
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(1) I think Steve's interpretation is different to mine. I was thinking that the use of "from" in the GUI allows for the LHS to select against a dynamic list (as it would if you'd written the DRL); whereas I think Steve is wanting the rule author to select from a descriptive set of options that relate to shorter codes used within the object model (in addition to his example; choices "Tea, no sugar", "White coffee, no sugar" and "White coffee, with sugar" might map to codes "TNS", "WCNS" and "WCWS"). Or I've misunderstood too!

(2) In response to Michael N's comment - I saw the JBRMS as a tool to be used by our customers (to the JBoss-Rules team, developers are customers; to us our customer is normally a business representative who wants to do everything graphically). Therefore the more function that can be achieved graphically the better. DRL is great but I wouldn't want our customers to have to use it. Business users thrive on "tediousness" ;-)

I think my comments have muddled the original JIRA. I am happy to step down from this as Michael N and Steve B seem to be (almost) agreeing. I think Michael N's example "eg Person.sex = [Male, Female, Undefined]" would need to expand to "Person.sex = [Male, M, Female, F, Undefined, U]" with the verbous shown to users and the code used internally.

> ValueList in rule model
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>                 Key: JBRULES-821
>                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-821
>             Project: JBoss Rules
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>            Reporter: Michael Neale
>         Assigned To: Michael Neale
>         Attachments: jbrmsDropDown.doc
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