Date/Time selections

Business rules are selected by a date/time specification.

The date is defined either as part of the business rule group's operation parameter or it is derived at run time. The dates are always in terms of UTC and are specific points in time. Only one business rule implementation per operation can be effective at any point in time. When no other business rule is found to be in effect for any point in time, the default business rule is used.

The business rule group supports the following date/time options, which you access by clicking the icon in the Start Date/Time and End Date/Time fields:

Specify Date/Time
Specifies a date manually.
Continuous
Uses an automatic date calculation that sets the end date to the earliest start date that is later than the selection record. The continuous date selection is only available on the End Date/Time field.
Note: The continuous selection is used when date ranges of two business rule selection records are contiguous. A continuous attribute is set to the end date of the first selection record. When this attribute is set, the start date of the second selection record is set to the end date of the first selection record so that you do not have to specify both dates.
No Start Date or No End Date
Does not set a starting or ending boundary, depending on which is selected.
Restriction: The business rule group only supports effective dates. If you need to perform another type of selection, use a selector component.
Related tasks
Creating a business rule record
Modifying a business rule record
Splitting dates in business rules

Last updated: Wed 06 Dec 2006 07:08:08

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