[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (DROOLS-5084) grouping rules

[Mario Fusco (Jira)]

     [ https://issues.redhat.com/browse/DROOLS-5084?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Mario Fusco reassigned DROOLS-5084:
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    Assignee: Toni Rikkola  (was: Mario Fusco)


> grouping rules
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>
>                 Key: DROOLS-5084
>                 URL: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/DROOLS-5084
>             Project: Drools
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: tools
>            Reporter: Werner Van Herrewegen
>            Assignee: Toni Rikkola
>            Priority: Major
>
> As a business user I would like to have an easy way to +*visibly *+group certain rules together in the business central.
> As a business user I want to have an intuitive way to afterwards find rules related to one of those groups.
> constraints:
> I don't want to use package (physical folder structure)
> I don't want to use the current tags implementation as I don't use the left side 'developer' project/repository treeview
> multiple rules can have the same group
> some rules might fit under multiple groups and should thus be found under multiple 'groups'
> workaround:
> Currently I use my own naming convention to allow business people to search for rules having to do with a certain topic.
> But it is tedious to maintain as rule names are free text and I have no way to force them to use the convention.
> And also the user needs to currently guess the 'topic'-names in the rule search window instead of having a list of 'topics'
> suggested solution:
> I like the tags idea. this allows to have the many to many relationship of rules and 'rule groups'
> But the way it is implemented in the UI is not user friendly enough to get business people to use it. I would also force them to put at least 1 tag. 
> And really important, tags must be forced to ALL_CAPITALS and no special signs but must ALLOW spaces (no underscores or hyphens for business users!).
> When creating a rule (the popup dialog where you name the rule and select the package), that is the time to add tags to it. (and not hidden in the overview>metadata tab)
> And afterwards they can be amended in this overview>metadata tab (though I would recommend to name it for business users 'rule info' tab, and make it easier to find)  :-)
> This will ensure that business people categorize their rules to keep track of them when the list gets longer. (and not get IT to find them for them)
> For the second part ...
> Now that business people have tagged their rules with 'business topics', they need to have an easy way to find all rules related to this 'business topic' (tag)
> The rule filter window is an excellent place for this. 
> I would like an additional filter text box that allows a collection of tags that will be used to filter the rules list.
> This text box is NOT 'free text' and should be fillable only with existing tags (think of the '+search +for labels' feature in jira)
> ->only allow valid tags (no free text)
> ->allow multiple tags (logic = OR/AND(perhaps also a NOT?) : use these words between selected tags iso just using a comma)
> ->drop down list sorted alphabetically with remaining valid tags
> In the result set, it would be also nice to to have an indication of the tags that apply to the specific rules.



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