Placeholders and Special Tokens

Placeholders and special characters are incorporated into the business language editor to guide the rule author with context-aware prompts.

Open Placeholder

The ... placeholder indicates that another template selection is required to fully complete the expression.

Named Placeholder The [value] placeholder indicates that a literal value, field, or another template is required to complete the expression.

Chevron Extender

The >> token indicates that a condition template can be extended by and'ing or or'ing another condition.

Caret Extender

The ^ extender is used to append logic to the previous field or value or the entire template. The initial context of the caret extender is set to the previous field - hitting the forward arrow will select the context of the entire template. The template menu will appear according to the selected context.

^ Extender with focus set to the previous field

^ Extender with focus set to the template