Locking prevents others adding new rules to a task or changing existing ones. You can control locking on the decision table using the Lock tab of the Decision Table Properties Editor, as shown in Figure 12.71.
Figure 12.71 Lock Tab of the Decision Table Properties Editor
The Lock tab of the Decision Table Properties Editor dialog box has the following features:
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Apply Locking Rules to This Table: If On, locking rules are effectively applied to the decision table. The default is Off for decision tables used as templates (to allow editing of the table and the locking rules) and On for decision tables used in rule packages. If locking rules are enforced (that is, Apply locking rules to this table is checked), you cannot modify the specification of the locking rules.
- When the decision table is used in a package, locking rules are enforced by default. If a permission manager prohibits modifications to the Decision Table Definition, the user cannot disable the locking rules.
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Show Lock Icons on Columns: If On, the lock icon
appears on all locked condition items and the lock icon
appears on all locked action items.
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Allow / Prevent the Addition and Removal of Condition Columns
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Allow / Prevent the Addition and Removal of Action Columns
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Condition Column Locking
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Lock column test
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Lock partitions
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Lock values
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Action Column Locking
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Lock action test
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Lock enable/disable
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Lock values
For example, to lock all the condition column tests:
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Clear the Apply Locking Rules to This Table checkbox.
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Click the Lock Test checkbox of the Table row to activate locking for all the condition columns of the table.
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Click the Apply Locking Rules to This Table checkbox to activate it and then click OK to register the settings.
See Also
Enabling Locking in the Rule Builder
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