[rules-users] How to use lock-on-active?

[Wolfgang Laun]

On 06/12/2011, Zhao Yi <zhaoyi0113 at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are some questions on your reply:
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> laune wrote
>> All activations from group A have been fired. Therefore, agenda group A
>> "loses the focus", and the agenda group that had the focus previously
>> receives the focus (becomes active) again.
> When you say the agenda group becomes active again, do you mean the agenda
> group A become active?

No, the agenda group that had the focus previously, which must be any
other group, not A.

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> laune wrote
>> Focus may be given (by an API method call) to another agenda group B while
>> there still are some activations from group A pending. Eventually, A will
>> receive the focus again, and rule firings from A continue as usual.
> How does the agenda group A give its focus to B? Is the API setFocus? What's
> kind of activations is pending when A left?

API call is one possibility.

When A is left (by a setFocus to B) then all activations that have not
been fired are still pending.

(What's so difficult to understand here? If you leave a box of
chocolates while some are still uneaten and start eating some
doughnuts from another box, then the chocolates are still there when
you've finished the doughnuts.)

-W