Child policies

Refine a policy by creating a new child policy or by editing the policy settings of an existing child policy.

You can refine the main policy for a portal resource by creating one or more levels of child policies. Each child policy inherits the property settings of its parent policy unless you choose to break parent-child inheritance by specifying that the child policy override the settings of the parent policy. You can also refine a policy by editing the settings of its child policies.

You can create a new policy only if a rule exists for the parent policy.

• If the parent policy has no rule associated with it, select a rule or create a new rule.

• If a parent policy has a rule associated with it, you can edit the rule, select a different rule, deselect the rule, or create a new rule.

After the parent policy has a rule associated with it, you can create a child policy.

The child policies for a parent policy are listed in the table. You can edit, delete, and assign user access to the child policies. You can also select a condition for each child policy. The condition must be fulfilled when the rule of the parent policy is applied.

Use the Resource Policies portlet for child policies to refine a parent policy:

• Policy rules
  Before you work with policies, it is important to understand the principles of policy rules and how conditional expressions in the rules for a particular type of portal resource can be applied and managed. These principles are fundamental to understanding the hierarchy of policies and how inheritance works between parent and child policies. You will also want to know how policies for portal resources use the Personalization Editor, particularly the correlation of policy concepts and Personalization concepts.

• Creating a child policy
  Create a child policy to refine the parent policy. The child policy is based on the rule currently selected for the parent policy.

• Selecting a condition
  Select a condition for the child policy to fulfill when the rule of the parent policy is applied. Conditions available for selection already exist for the rule belonging to the parent policy. The condition you select will provide the level of specialization that you want for the policy settings of the resource.

• Editing child policy settings
  Change the settings of the child policy, including the options for preserving or breaking the inheritance of policy settings from the parent policy.

• Working with policy rules
  Create, select, edit, and deselect rules for policies using the Personalization Editor.

• Deleting a policy
  Delete a policy to permanently remove the policy and all of its child policies.

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