Any change to any part of these CER rule sets, for any product period on the product, has the potential to affect assessment determinations for the product's cases:
- the rule set containing the eligibility/entitlement rule class;
- the rule set containing the key decision factors rule class (if configured);
- the rule set (s)containing any of the decision details rule classes(if configured); and/or
- any other rule set containing any rule attribute that was encountered during the calculation of a case's determination, e.g. those on "calculator" rule classes and "data" rule classes for custom entity and evidence types, which may be stored in "common" rule sets separate from the rule sets containing the rule classes named by your product period(s).
Note: Other processing in the application (outside the Engine) may also rely on CER rule sets, and so it is possible that CER rule sets are being changed for reasons unrelated to case assessments.
The Dependency Manager does not know which CER rule sets do or do not affect cases, and so for any change in CER rule sets, the Dependency Manager will treat the change as one that might affect cases, but will simply identify that no product delivery cases are affected.
The administration application contains a "sandbox" area where an administrator can accumulate changes to CER rules before choosing to "publish" those changes, at which point the changes to CER rules will start to affect product delivery cases. Unpublished rule set changes have no effect on case processing.