Any change to any configuration for any of the configurable rule object data configurations has the potential to affect product delivery cases, because the entities and evidence to be used by CER during the execution of rules may have changed.
The Dependency Manager does not know which configuration changes do or do not affect cases, and so for any change in data configurations, the Dependency Manager will treat the change as one that might affect cases. If the data configuration changes are unrelated to case assessments, then the Dependency Manager will simply identify that no product delivery cases are affected.
The administration application contains a "sandbox" area where an administrator can accumulate changes to rule object data configurations before choosing to "publish" those changes, at which point the changes to the data configurations will start to affect product delivery cases. Unpublished data configurations changes have no effect on case processing.