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Date/Time selections

Business rules are selected by a date/time specification.

The date is defined either as part of the business rule group's operation parameter or it is derived at run time. The dates are always in terms of UTC and are specific points in time. Only one rule logic can be effective for an operation at any point in time. When no rule logic is found to be in effect for any point in time, the default rule logic is used.

The business rule group supports the following date/time options, which you access by clicking the icon in the Start Date/Time and End Date/Time fields:

Specify Date/Time

Specifies a date manually.

Continuous

Uses an automatic date calculation that sets the end date to the earliest start date that is later than the scheduled rule logic entry. The continuous date selection is only available on the End Date/Time field.

The continuous selection is used when date ranges of two scheduled rule logic entries are contiguous. A continuous attribute is set to the end date of the first scheduled rule logic entry. When this attribute is set, the start date of the second scheduled rule logic entry is set to the end date of the first scheduled rule logic entry so that you do not have to specify both dates.

No Start Date or No End Date

Does not set a starting or ending boundary, depending on which is selected.

The business rule group only supports effective dates. If you need to perform another type of selection, use a selector component.

Work with scheduled rule logic entries

Related tasks:
Create scheduled rule logic entries
Modify scheduled rule logic entries
Splitting dates in business rules