Rules and Guidelines for Rule Specifications

A rule specification contains a primary rule set and optionally contains additional rule sets. The primary rule set represents the complete logic of the rule specification. Additional rule sets define discrete data analysis operations and provide outputs that other rule sets can read.
The mapplet that represents the primary rule set has the same name as the rule specification.
If you rename a rule specification in the Developer tool, the Analyst tool displays the name when the user opens the rule specification. If you rename the mapplet for the primary rule set, you do not change the rule specification name.
If an Analyst tool user adds, deletes, or edits an input in a rule specification, the user breaks all input links to other objects in a mapping. If an Analyst tool user adds, deletes, or edits an output in a rule specification, the user breaks all input links to other objects in a mapping. The edits that break the links include changes to the name, precision, or data type of an input or output. Update the links in any mapping that uses the rule specification.
If an Analyst tool user updates the business logic in a rule specification but does not alter the inputs or outputs, the input and output links do not break. The changes that the user makes are available to the mapping when the user saves the rule specification.