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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services

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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Business rules user interface


MDS business rules are created within a model for a given entity, member type (leaf or consolidated), and attribute combination. All of this is carried out in the System Administration function, which exposes the familiar MDS grid-based interface to hold the created business rules. Although our Store model does not contain any business rules yet, an example of the business rules user interface for the sample Product model is shown next:

The buttons above the grid are explained next from left to right:

The familiar green plus icon that is shown is how the business rules are created, much like the other MDS objects that we've looked at so far.

The business rules contain a concept called publishing that involves creating or editing the business rules offline, before clicking this button to make the rules active on the server.

This edit button is how the business rules are designed, whether creating a new rule or editing an existing rule.

The...