Describe a LabelRules rule in plain English

Type a label rule in plain English, answer the AI’s question about its priority, inspect the complete proposed rule and save it deliberately as a draft.

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Type a label rule in plain English, answer the AI’s question about its priority, inspect the complete proposed rule and save it deliberately as a draft.

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Describe the rule in plain English

  1. Load the current LabelRules draft

    Load the current LabelRules draft

    Load the ACME label copies draft. It holds the approved label rules, where every job gets one copy of each ordered unit.

  2. Choose to add a label quantity rule

    Choose to add a label quantity rule

    Choose Add a label quantity rule. Its units are read from the ordered quantity on each line.

  3. Name the new rule acme-two-copies

    Name the new rule acme-two-copies

    Give the new rule its identifier, acme-two-copies.

  4. Load the label quantity controls

    Load the label quantity controls

    Load the controls for the new label quantity rule.

  5. Choose Create acme-two-copies

    Choose Create acme-two-copies

    Choose the change to describe: Create acme-two-copies.

  6. Type the requirement in plain English

    Type the requirement in plain English

    Type the requirement in plain English: for customer ACME, make two copies per ordered unit.

  7. Ask for a proposal

    Ask for a proposal

    Ask for a proposal. The AI asks which priority the rule should have, because LabelRules uses the highest-priority quantity rule that matches.

  8. Add the priority the AI asked for

    Add the priority the AI asked for

    Add the answer to the requirement: priority 100, so the rule replaces the standard one copy per unit for ACME jobs.

  9. Ask for the complete proposal

    Ask for the complete proposal

    Ask again. The AI now proposes the complete rule.

  10. Read the restatement of the rule

    Read the restatement of the rule

    Read the restatement: when the customer code is ACME, the new label quantity applies.

  11. Inspect the proposed condition

    Inspect the proposed condition

    Open the condition and check it reads the customer code, ACME.

  12. Check what will be saved

    Check what will be saved

    Check what will be saved: the rule priority, the copies per unit and the field the units are read from.

  13. Check two copies of each ordered unit

    Check two copies of each ordered unit

    Check priority 100 and two copies per unit, with the units read from the line quantity.

  14. Explain the change before saving

    Explain the change before saving

    Record why the change is right: ACME jobs get two copies of every ordered unit, and other customers keep one copy per unit.

  15. Confirm you checked the whole proposal

    Confirm you checked the whole proposal

    Confirm that you checked the condition and every value in the proposal.

  16. Save the proposal as a draft

    Save the proposal as a draft

    Save the proposal as a draft. Saving does not approve, release or apply the rule.

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The proposal is saved as a draft. Examples, independent review and release review still follow, and saving prints no label.

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