Adding an Operator and a Literal Value

Designing and Implementing Business Process Models : Working with Business Rules in My webMethods : Working with Decision Tables : Modifying a Decision Table : Adding an Operator and a Literal Value

You can add an operator and a literal value in direct edit mode.

To add an operator and a literal value:

1. Open the decision table as described in Opening a Decision Entity.

2. Lock the decision table as described in Locking a Decision Entity.

3. Click the cell you want to modify.

4. Select an operator as specified in About Condition Operators or About Result Operators.

Important:

Adding only an operator without entering a literal value results in a semantically invalid cell.

5. Enter a literal value in the input field as required:

Note:

The literal value must match the data type as specified in About Data Type Assignment.

For this data type ...

You can do this ...

Boolean

Select true or false from the drop down list.

Date

a. Click the

icon.

b. Select the date.

c. Enter a time of day (optional).

Note:

The format and time zone of displayed date and time values can be configured in the My Profile settings. The webMethods Business Rules functionality only supports hours, minutes and seconds.

Byte
Character
Double
Float
Integer
Long
Short

Type the literal value.

String

Type the literal value.

6. Press ENTER, or click anywhere in the Decision Entity Editor window to remove the focus from the cell.

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