Conditions in Interactive Communications

Select Forms > Document Fragments.

Select Create > Condition.

Specify the following information:

• Title: (Optional) Enter the title for the condition. Titles do not need to be unique and can have special characters and non-english characters. Conditions are referred by their titles (when available) such as in thumbnails and properties.

• Name: The unique name for the condition, within a folder. No two document fragments (text, condition, or list) in any state can exist with the same name within a folder. In the Name field, you can enter only English language characters, numbers, and hyphens. The Name field is automatically populated based on the Title field. The special characters, spaces, numbers, and non-English characters entered in the Title field are replaced with hyphens in the Name field. Although the value in the Title field is automatically copied to the Name, you can edit the value.

• Description: Type a description of the document fragment.

• Form Data Model: Optionally, select the Form Data Model radio button to create the condition based on a form data model. When you select Form Data Model radio button, Form Data Model field appears. Browse and select a form data model. While creating condition for an Interactive Communication, ensure that you use the same data model that you intend to use in the Interactive Communication. For more information on form data model, see Data Integration.

• Tags: Optionally, to create custom tag enter value in text field and select Enter. When you save this condition, the newly added tags get created.

Select Next.

Create Condition page appears.

Select Add Assets.

Select Assets page appears and displays the available texts, lists, conditions, and images that are available for adding in the condition.

NOTE

Only none-based, newly created assets and FDM-based assets (created using same FDM as the condition being created) appear in the Select Assets page.

Select the appropriate assets to select them to include in the condition and then select Done.

Create Condition page appears and lists the added assets.

You can use the following options to manage assets in a condition:

[A] Reject Change. Select this icon to reject the changes you may have made to the asset and the rule in the condition.
[B] Accept Change. Select this icon to accept the changes you have made in the asset and rule in the condition.
[C] Duplicate Asset. Select this icon to create a copy of the asset along with the applied rule, if any, in the condition. Then you can proceed to editing the rule and asset for duplicated asset. Duplicating an asset is useful for creating similar rules to display alternate assets based on a particular context.
[D] Show Preview. Select this icon to display a preview of the asset within the Create\Edit Condition page.
‘server’ Reorder. Select and hold this icon to drag-and-drop assets to reorder them within a condition.

You can select the following options to specify how the condition behaves at runtime:

• Multiple Results Evaluation Disabled\Multiple Results Evaluation Enabled: When this option is enabled (appears as “Multiple Results Evaluation Enabled”), all the rules are evaluated and the result is the sum of all the true rules. If this option is disabled (appears as “Multiple Results Evaluation Disabled”) then only the first rule that is found to be true is evaluated and becomes the output of the condition.

• Page Break: Select this option ( ) to add a page break between the assets of the conditions. When this option is not selected ( ), if a condition is overflowing to the next page in the print output, the whole condition is shifted to the next page instead of breaking in the page between the assets in the condition.

Select Create Rule to add rules to display or hide the assets, as required. To use variables in the rules, see creating variables. For more information, see Adding rules to condition.

The created rules appear in the RULE column in the Create Condition screen.

NOTE

You can insert assets in your condition that already have rules or repeat applied.

Select Save.

The condition is created. Now you can proceed to using the condition as a building block while creating an Interactive Communication.

NOTE

To save a new or edited condition, you must have at least one rule for each of assets added in the condition.

While creating or editing a condition, select (Rule Editor) icon for the relevant asset.

The Create Rule dialog appears. In addition to string, number, mathematical expression, and date, the following are also available in the Rule Editor for creating statements of the rules:

• Associated form data model’s properties
• Any variables that you may have created.

Select the appropriate option to be evaluated.

NOTE

Collection property is not supported for creating rules to display assets.

Select the appropriate operator to evaluate the rule, such as Is Equal To, Contains, and Starts With.

Insert the evaluating expression, string, data model property, variable, or date.

Rule to show an asset when policy type is standard

• While creating or editing a rule, you can also select (Resize) to expand the Create Rule/Edit Rule dialog. The expanded, full-window dialog lets you create variables to construct rules. Select Resize again to go back to the regular Create Rule dialog.

• You can also create multiple conditions in a rule.

Select Done.

The rule gets applied to the asset.