Ability to hide authoring components in irAuthor

This feature is intended for irAuthor extension creators to allow the ability to hide certain authoring components from the navigation panels.

A new boolean property has been added to the RuleRepositoryDefBase class called 'HideFromAuthoring'. Extension creators may set this property to true if they intend to hide a component from the navigation panels.

This feature currently only applies to the following navigation panels:

• Decisions
• Rules
• Data
• End Points
• Schema

The only authoring components that currently honor the hide property are:

• Rules
• Actions
• Data Elements
• End Points
• Schemas

(RuleSets and Decisions themselves are not affected)

For example, if a FireNotificationActionDef is created, its 'HideFromAuthoring' property is set to true, and added to a RuleSet, it will not appear in the navigation panel, although it will execute during rule execution.

Note: Hidden authoring components are not currently excluded from the Find or Points of Interest features.

To view all hidden authoring components, there is a new irAuthor option in the 'General' options section called 'Show Hidden Items'. Checking this checkbox will show all hidden authoring components in their respective navigation panels.