As described in section 3.3, a determination package holds the questionnaires and decision making logic for the assessment. Where an assessment has different rules or logic specific to the client's age, gender and agency program, an assessment can have several determination packages. In order to make decisions, the system must select the determination package most suited to meet the needs of the client being assessed, based on the product, age and gender criteria configured on the determination packages.
The process of choosing the determination package for a client begins with the system retrieving case and participant information for the client. The system then compares the participant and case information to the information contained within the different determination packages set up for the determination configuration, and all determination packages for the effective date of the assessment are retrieved. Next, the system selects the determination package for which the configuration best matches the client being assessed. This process differs slightly for different case types: