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naomip0001
October 11, 2021
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Decision Table with Expressions as output

  • October 11, 2021
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I would like to use a decision table to determine a particular display configured as an expression.   If an object is of type A and Status B, then display rule!AB.  The configured expression would not take in any inputs and is only for display purposes. 

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    mikes0011
    mikes0011
    Brainy
    October 11, 2021

    This is super ghetto but you could always wrap the decision in an expression rule and direct the expression rule to call different [expressionable] outcomes based on a particular plaintext output from the decision. 

    Though at that rate, it seems hardly worth it to even bother with the decision rule anymore - which is why I've ended up hardly ever using them.

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    naomip0001Author
    October 11, 2021

    Kind of. The use case is perfect. I don't want to create some giant if statement, but it looks like that's the only option.

    mikes0011
    mikes0011
    Brainy
    October 11, 2021

    Your decision could just return integers 1 - N, then an expression rule wraps it in a choose() statement, to avoid a thousand nested if() levels.

    But yes I agree, decisions will only ever be actually useful for any use cases more complicated than very simple ones and/or demos, when they're more expressionable in the inputs and/or in the outputs.

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