Expression rule commentary

RE: Expression rule commentary

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 16 May 2019 14:36:29 GMT

That makes sense - some optional way to comment on individual rule inputs does seem like it would be useful, though it might require a bit of a dramatic product change (though i might hopefully be wrong about that).

RE: Expression rule commentary

Carlos Santander — Thu, 16 May 2019 14:34:35 GMT

That can probably go in the rule description, though I don't disagree that having rule input descriptions would make it even better

RE: Expression rule commentary

Richard Nolan — Thu, 16 May 2019 14:32:55 GMT

Understood, and I agree, however sometimes we'd like to have valid ranges for rule inputs....

RE: Expression rule commentary

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 16 May 2019 14:29:40 GMT

When you say "commentary within the function", what exactly are you imagining, I wonder? It seems like it would get pretty messy to have the popup help window show all in-function comments, for example. I certainly wouldn't want that in the case of any of my expression rules with heavy annotations, typically pertaining more to implementation rather than usage.

RE: Expression rule commentary

Richard Nolan — Wed, 15 May 2019 17:58:16 GMT

I was actually hoping to do this via commentary within the function. But this does help, thank you!

RE: Expression rule commentary

Carlos Santander — Wed, 15 May 2019 17:50:00 GMT

A rule's description (Gear menu > Properties) shows up in the bottom-left panel in the rule designer for a user-defined rule. Its rule inputs also show up. That information also shows as part of the autocomplete functionality.