Product rules
Use product rules to migrate or deliver an application to another Pega Platform systems. Product rules identify the rulesets and versions, rules and data objects, and other parts of an application.
After you complete and save a product rule, you can generate a .zip file that contains the following items:
- Rules in rulesets and versions for a specific application
- Rules in selected rulesets and versions
- Instances within any class
- A post-deployment action that displays Read Me information
The following wizards work with product rules or .zip files:
- Application Package wizard creates a product rule that contains relevant data instances and rulesets.
- Export gadget creates a .zip archive from a product rule.
- Import wizard landing page imports a .zip archive.
- Purge/Archive wizard removes resolved work items from your system and optionally saves them in a .zip archive.
- Product Migration wizard creates a .zip archive from a product or product patch rule, migrates the archive, and imports it to one or more destination systems.
- Package Work wizard creates a product rule that includes work items, work item history, and work item attachments.
Use the Records Explorer to list all the product rules that are available to you.
Product rules are instances of the Rule-Admin-Product class. They belong to the SysAdmin category. Product rules are sometimes informally called RAP rules.
Product rules are rarely referenced by other rules. When searching for a Product rule, the system does the following:
- Filters candidate rules based on a requestor's ruleset list of rulesets and versions.
- Finds circumstance-qualified rules that override base rules with the same key.
Class-based inheritance does not apply. Time-qualified resolution features are not available for Product rules.