Any change to the configuration of a Product has the potential to
affect assessment determinations for the product's cases.
In particular, changes to the product periods for your product may
affect the product's cases. Product period changes include:
- adding a new product period (e.g. to implement a change in
legislation, using the multiple product periods approach, see Multiple Product Periods for Your Product);
- removing an existing product period;
- changing the start and/or end date of an existing product
period;
- changing the name1of the eligibility/entitlement rule class
for an existing product period;
- adding, changing or removing the name of the key decision factor
rule class for an existing product period; and/or
- adding, changing or removing the name of the decision details rule
class for any display category on an existing product period.
The administration application contains a "sandbox" area where an
administrator can accumulate changes to a product (including its product
periods) before choosing to "publish" those changes, at which point the
changes to the product will start to affect product delivery cases.
Unpublished product changes have no effect on case processing.
There is additional processing required if a change is made to the
Product's reassessment strategy. See Reassessment Strategy.
1 This change refers to changing which rule class
the product period "points at" for eligibility/entitlement calculations;
i.e. changing the product period from pointing to one rule class to
instead point to another; similarly for key decision factors and
decision details rule classes.
Changes to the CER rules themselves
are described below.