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In Clarion terms, a business rule refers to your business data values stored through the application and to the constraints on attempted changes to those data values.
Business rules are precise statements that describe, constrain, and control selected data elements within your application.
The Global Extension allows you to define rules that can be used throughout your application. In each procedure, you can choose to override all, or part, of these business rules.
The Business Rules Manager template provides the following global prompts:
Mode:
Original/Clone selection
The Global Extension operates in one of two modes. In Original mode, all of the prompts described in this Help topic appear. When code is generated, the information entered is exported to a file. In Clone mode, only the Mode prompts appear. The extension imports rules information from the file.
This feature allows you to use the Global Extension in multiple-DLL projects without having to re-enter business rules for each DLL.
Rules File Name
Enter a name for the file, which is exported in Original mode and imported in Clone mode. The extension for this file will always be .brf.
All Rules:
The Business Rules Manager template provides to the user at runtime a display window containing a list of rules, and displays any errors made (rules broken) based on the data entered (or not entered).
Default Description
Enter a default description to use for the title bar of this window.
Error-indicator image
Enter an icon image to use that will identify rules errors to the user within the rules list.
Default distance from right
Enter a number in pixels that will separate the error indicator image from the specific rule description.
Global Rules
Press this button to access the Global Rules dialog
View Rules Icons
This group allows you to specify icons to be displayed in the Rules List dialog window. You can designate an icon for the Header (top element in a rules tree ' normally the Default Description), Valid Rule (Rule names that are validated), and Broken Rule (Rule names that are not validated).
When any Rule is broken
Regardless of where the Rules Set is defined (Global or Local), the settings here designate specific controls that must be disabled or hidden anytime that a rule is broken. These settings can be overridden on the procedure level.
Disable Form “SaveButton”
Check this box to disable any SaveButton control template when a rule is broken.
Hide Browse “InsertButton”
Check this box to disable any InsertButton that is a populated component of the Browse Update control template when a rule is broken.
Hide Browse “ChangeButton”
Check this box to disable any ChangeButton that is a populated component of the Browse Update control template when a rule is broken.
Hide Browse “DeleteButton”
Check this box to disable any DeleteButton that is a populated component of the Browse Update control template when a rule is broken.
The specified controls above may be disabled or hidden when the window is first opened, after a rule check reveals one that is broken.
All Rules ' Other Controls
Press this button to display a dialog that allows you to hide/unhide or enable/disable special controls anytime that a rule is broken.
Initialize User Rules
Check this box to allow inclusion of a set of rules that are read from an external file. This file must use a TopSpeed format, and can be defined internally or declared in a dictionary. If the file is declared in a dictionary, it must have 3 column names defined as follows:
Control STRING(128)
Description STRING(256)
Expression STRING(512)
User rules file name
Enter the name of the Topspeed file to be used. This must be a string constant (no variables allowed). Example: UserRules.TPS
User rules file password
If the User rules file is encrypted, enter a valid password here.