Change a Decision Table

Changing a decision table also changes the rate table and the price components that contain them. For information about the decision table properties, see the discussion about decision table properties.

Before you begin

Create the normalizers that the decision table will use.

About this task

Note: This procedure explains how to change a decision table from the My MATRIXX Pricing Configuration interface. You can also change a decision table from within the pricing item that contains it. The interfaces are slightly different.

Procedure

  1. In Decision Table, click the name of the decision table to edit.
  2. In Edit Decision Table:
    1. In Name, enter a unique name.
    2. (Optional) In Description, enter descriptive information about its purpose.
    3. (Optional) In External ID, enter any alphanumeric character to serve as a unique ID on this pricing object. The external ID can be used for any reason that is meaningful to your implementation of MATRIXX Engine. External IDs are saved to the pricing configuration file and loaded into the Pricing database.
    4. Click Save.
  3. (Optional) In Edit Decision Table:
Single-Parameter Decisions
  1. (Optional) Delete rows by selecting one or more rows and clicking Delete Rows.
  2. Click Add Row.

    Leave the single row that was added (that has no value) unpopulated (do not add data to it).

    The decision table is successfully created. You can now assign the decision table to the pricing item tables that are intended to use this decision table for single-parameter based decisions.

  3. (Optional) Assign the decision table to the component table of the pricing item that will use it and populate the single row with a normalizer value.

    For example, from within a rate table, assign this decision table by clicking Select Decision Table in the rate table workspace, and then specify the single rating formula by clicking Edit the selected object in the result cell and entering the appropriate values in the formula dialog box.

Multi-Parameter Decisions
  1. For each normalizer to add to the decision table, perform the following steps:
    1. (Optional) Delete normalizer columns by selecting one or more rows and clicking Delete Rows.
    2. Click Add Column.
    3. Select the normalizer from the list.
    4. Click Add.
  2. For each possible combination of the normalization parameter values you want the decision table to normalize on, perform the following steps:
    1. Click Add Row.
    2. Click the cell in each normalizer column and select a parameter value from the list.

    If needed, you can clone or delete any row that has been added:

    • To clone one or multiple rows, click in the check box of each row you want to clone (to clone all rows, click the check box in the table header), and then click Copy Rows. The clones are added to the decision table.
    • To delete one or multiple rows, click in the check box of each row you want to delete (to delete all rows, click the check box in the table header), and then click Delete Rows.

    The decision table is successfully created with the multiple-parameter condition set you defined.

  3. (Optional) Assign the decision table to the component table of the pricing item that will use it and assign a result value for each condition-set row of the decision table.

    For example, from within a policy table, assign this decision table by clicking Select Decision Table in the policy table workspace, and then in the results column of the policy table, specify the policy profiles that apply to each condition-set row of the decision table.

What to do next

You can reuse the decision table in any component table that you want.