Tracing

OpenL Web Studio provides a rule tracing view for all appropriate OpenL Tablets methods. These methods include the following:

Rule tracing enables users to determine how results for complex rules are obtained.

To display the trace view, in rule editor, open the required table and, in the right pane, click Trace .

The trace view resembles the following:

Figure 48: Tracing a rule

The left side displays a tree consisting of decision tables as tree nodes and fired rule rows as tree leaves. In addition, the view displays the actual parameters used in the particular method call.

If an element in the tree is selected, the corresponding decision table is displayed in the right pane. The fired rule rows are highlighted using the specified color. The highlight color and transparency level can be configured using controls above the decision table.