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Requiring Decimal or NumericFeatures

An Oracle White Paper

March2006


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Requiring Decimal or Numeric Features

Introduction....................................................................................................... 3

Making an integer feature a required input in oracle configurator............. 3

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Requiring Decimal or Numeric Features

INTRODUCTION

[he following screenshots demonstrate a workaround for making an Integer Feature a required input in Oracle

Configurator. The same scenario is equally applicable to Decimal Features.

MAKING AN INTEGER FEATURE A REQUIRED INPUT IN ORACLE CONFIGURATOR

The approach is reasonable when there is a limited number of Numeric Features that need to bemade required. However, for a Model that has many such Numeric Features, the overhead of thenecessary Model Structure and Rules can quickly become burdensome.

For the example, a Boolean Feature, ‘Require MyIntegerFeature?’, specifies that the Integer Feature,‘MyIntegerFeature’, is required. This could be any condition, however. The structure also includesan Option Feature, ‘MyIntegerFeature Required’, whose Minimum is defined as 0, and which has twoOptions.



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Two rules are utilized, one to specify when the Option Feature is required, and another to specify when it has been satisfied.



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The first rule specifies that when the condition for requiring the Integer Feature is true, then theOption Feature is turned on (that is, Minimum dynamically goes from 0 to 1).



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The second rules specifies that once a value has been entered for the Integer Feature, one of theOption Feature’s Options gets selected, thereby satisfying the Option Feature.

To this point, the workaround will enforce that the configuration is invalid unless a value is specifiedfor the Integer Feature. That is, if the Integer Feature is required but a value is not entered, theSummary Page will note that the configuration is not valid. However, the Integer Feature will not bedisplayed as being required in the User Interface without further modifications.



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In the User Interface, go to the control that represents the Integer Feature, select it, and perform the‘Convert Template Reference’ action on it.



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Edit the Unsatisfied Indicator of the Numeric Input.



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Change the Unsatisfied Indicator’s Associated Model Node to the Option Feature.



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Test.



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When the condition requiring the Integer Feature becomes true, the Integer Feature displays as arequired input.



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Looking at the Configuration Summary, we see that the configuration is unsatisfied, pending an inputto the Integer Feature.



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Once a value is specified for the Integer Feature, its Unsatisfied Indicator disappears…



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…and the configuration is now satisfied.



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Requiring Decimal or Numeric Feature

March] 2006

Author : Eog an O’Donnel l

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