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Defining Rules using Actions, Variables, and Methods

The basics behind creating rules and customizing each transformation rely on the use of Actions, Variables, and Methods. The Ruleset editor allows you to manipulate data using areas of the UI dedicated to these, as shown here.

Actions

Ruleset Actions are used to perform some type of operation on data during a transformation run.  Each rule in a Ruleset is defined by an Action; these can be one of the many pre-canned Actions supplied with the CIC Studio, or those custom Actions you create. The most common Action (Move) is used to transfer data from one document to another. 

Variables

Variables supply rules (and rule conditions) with values for their Inputs and Outputs parameters. A variable can hold system-generated information that is likely to change at runtime; it can also hold a user-defined initial value (in effect, making it a constant) – but that value too may change, if desired, at runtime.

Methods

A Ruleset Method, like a Composite Rule, is used to group rules. An important difference however, is that the method includes Type parameters which correspond to data types in the source and target of the Ruleset. Methods can also be re-used within the Ruleset, thereby providing better maintainability.

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