This information uses common names to refer to a single rule of a specific rule type.
Most common names are familiar and unlikely to cause confusion:
Other common names are less obvious. For example, the common name for Rule-Obj-When instances is not when, but when condition.
The following table provides a more complete list of rule types and their common names.
Common name |
Rule type |
| access role | Rule-Access-Role-Name |
| Access of Role to Object | Rule-Access-Role-Obj |
| activity | Rule-Obj-Activity |
| agents rule | Rule-Agent-Queue. This rule is different than Data-Agent-Queue. |
| alias function rule | Rule-Alias-Function |
| binary file rule | Rule-File-Binary |
| class | Rule-Obj-Class. To distinguish Java classes from Pega Platform classes, the word Java is always used when referring to Java classes. |
| connector rule | Any of the Rule-Connect- classes |
| control rule | Rule-HTML-Property |
| constraints rule | Rule-Declare-Constraints |
| correspondence rule | Rule-Obj-Corr |
| correspondence fragment | Rule-Corr-Fragment |
| data transform | Rule-Obj-Model |
| decision table | Rule-Declare-DecisionTable |
| decision tree | Rule-Declare-DecisionTree |
| Declare Expression | Rule-Declare-Expressions |
| field value | Rule-Obj-FieldValue |
| flow | Rule-Obj-Flow |
| flow action | Rule-Obj-FlowAction |
| fragment | Rule-HTML-Fragment |
| function | Rule-Utility-Function |
| harness | Rule-HTML-Harness |
| HTML rule | Rule-Obj-HTML |
| HTML Property rule — see control rule | Rule-HTML-Property |
| library rule | Rule-Utility-Library |
| list rule | Rule-Obj-List |
| map value | Rule-Obj-MapValue. |
| message rule | Rule-Message. A message rule is different than a message, which is an element on the clipboard. |
| method | Rule-Method. The phrase "Java method" distinguishes Rule-Method rules from Java methods. |
| model — see data transform | Rule-Obj-Model |
| Parse Delimited rule | Rule-Parse-Delimited |
| Parse Structured rule | Rule-Parse-Structured |
| Parse XML rule | Rule-Parse-XML |
| portal rule | Rule-Portal |
| privilege | Rule-Admin-Privilege |
| product rule | Rule-Admin-Product |
| property | Rule-Obj-Property |
| property alias | Rule-Obj-Property-Alias |
| property qualifier | Rule-Obj-Property-Qualifier |
| report definition | Rule-Obj-Report-Definition |
| RuleSet | Rule-RuleSet-Name |
| section | Rule-HTML-Section |
| service-level agreement | Rule-Obj-ServiceLevel |
| service rules | Any of the Rule-Service- classes |
| setting rule | Rule-Access-Setting |
| skill rule | Rule-Access-Skill |
| text file rule | Rule-File-Text |
| ticket | Rule-Obj-Ticket |
| validation rule | Rule-Obj-Validate (not Rule-Edit-Validate) |
| version | Rule-RuleSet-Version |
| when condition | Rule-Obj-When This rule is not the same as Rule-Access-When. When conditions (rules) are different than the <pega:when > JSP tag. |
| work parties rule | Rule-Obj-WorkParties |
| XML rule | Rule-Obj-XML |