Conditional Milestones Dependency

The dependency between intermediate milestones can be conditional. This is specified using the relationship attribute called Condition in TIBCO Fulfillment Catalog. It is represented in the product model as illustrated below:

Conditional Milestones Dependency

Conditional MilestonesDependency

In this sample, the START milestone of EP_PROVIDE_11 is dependent on MILE1 of EP_PROVIDE_10, only if the specified condition is satisfied.

The condition syntax can be one of following three types:

  • Parent UDF Syntax
  • Child UDF Syntax
  • Match Parent-Child UDF Syntax
Note: There is no provision to specify the XSLT statement in the condition as it is there for Attribute Based Decomposition.

Note the following definitions:

  • Parent: The plan fragment whose milestone has a dependency on another plan fragment. The parent UDF will be referred to a UDF passed in the order line in the order for that product which will be propagated into the plan item for that order line.
  • Child: The plan fragment on whose milestone a milestone in another plan fragment depends. The child UDF will be referred to a UDF passed in the order line in the order for that product which will be propagated into the plan item for that order line.

In the plan illustrated above, EP_TEST_PROVIDE_11 [START] is dependent on EP_TEST_PROVIDE_10 [MILE1]. It is assigned to PROD11 as PROVIDE plan fragment. PROD11 is the parent and PROD10 is child.

Parent UDF Syntax

Value:Parent(ParentUDFName=ExpectedValue)

The condition is satisfied only if there is a UDF in the parent plan item with the same value as passed in the condition as "ExpectedValue".

Child UDF Syntax

Value:Child(ChildUDFName=ExpectedValue)

The condition is satisfied only if there is a UDF in the child plan item with the same value as passed in the condition as "ExpectedValue".

Match Parent-Child UDF Syntax

Match:ParentUDFName=ChildUDFName

The condition is satisfied only if the value of the UDF [ParentUDFName] in parent plan item is equal to the value of the UDF [ChildUDFName] in child plan item.