Designing Nested Rule Criteria

A nested rule criterion uses nesting to influence the order of the criteria evaluation.

See the topic Creating Simple Rule Conditions, steps 1 through 6 for creating a simple criterion. To create nested rule criterion, perform the following steps:

Procedure

  1. Click . Click ( ) Add Group. Select Or or And by clicking .
    A nested criterion is added.
  2. Click in the new criterion. Click < > Add Characteristic. Enter the values for Characteristic, Operator, and Value. You can add multiple groups by repeating steps 1 and 2.
  3. Click Finalize.
    The rule criterion is created.
    Note: The criterion inside the innermost bracket is executed first during the runtime.
  4. A nested rule criterion can also be created as shown in the figure below.