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This guide will explain the Kiuwan Rules page into detail. 

Contents: 

Introduction to rules management

This section shows all the available rules for the current user. These rules can be:

1. Kiuwan library rules

1. . Those rules offered by Kiuwan. Users can customize some of their properties to match their

1. model's needs (more on this topic in the

1. Customizing Rules

1. section).

1. Custom rules. Kiuwan users can install their own rules in Kiuwan. These rules can be imported from 3rd party tools or installed from Kiuwan Rule Developer

1. (read more about it on the Rule Development page).

 
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Rules management page

Go to Model Management > Rules to access the rules section. 

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This section shows all the available rules for the current user. Every section of this page is described in the following paragraphs. 

Filters

This is the first part

of the section and it allows you to filter the rules to show.
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The default filters are:

These filters can be combined

with each other. When activating more than one filter, only rules that match both filters will be shown.
Each time the filter is changed, the rule counter under the filter section will be updated according to the specified filter. 

Rules list

This is the part of the screen where the rules are shown.
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Each row in the table shows:

Quick configuration

When a model of your own is selected in the left

Models panel, you can add or remove rules from the model by clicking on the circles in the

Active

column:
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Additional options will be available if the rule is active:
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• Change the characteristic classification of a rule. Click on the characteristic label to change the characteristic a rule is classified under.
• Change the priority of a rule. Click on the priority icon to change the priority of a rule.
• Change the effort of a rule. Click on the effort label to change the effort needed to repair a defect of a rule.
• Drop-down menu options:
  • Restore the default configuration of a rule.
  • Remove a rule from kiuwan (only available if the rule is owned by the current user).

Rule details

Click the name of a rule to show the rule details window

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This window shows the full information of the selected rule. This information is organized in different sections:

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Configuration and customization

When accessing the rule details window of a rule that you don't own, you can:

• Add your own notes for the rule.
• Change the characteristic classification of the rule.
• Change the priority of the rule.
• Change the effort of the rule. You can even set a custom effort for the rule in minutes.
• Change the rule behavior by changing the editable

• parameter values.
• Create, add or remove tags to the rule.

If you own the rule, additional options will be available:

• Edit all metadata of the rule (name, description, benefits, drawbacks, remediation, configuration).
• Add or remove documentation references.
• Add or remove relations with other rules.
• Modify the rule code examples.
• Modify the rule parameter's name and description.

When editing

your own rules, note that you will not be able to:

• Change the implementation class of the rule.
• Change editable parameter names.
• Change non editable parameter names or values.

These changes are not allowed in the rule details window because they would impact your own analyses –they could make the rule not executable in the Kiuwan Local Analyzer–. If you need to change any of

these fields, you should install the rule again using the rule installation wizard

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Saving the rule: configuration scopes

When saving a rule and a configuration change has been made –a change in the characteristic, priority, effort or a parameter value–, changes may be applied differently:

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• If the rule is not active in the current model, the changes will apply globally. This means that the changes made will affect all your models that contain the saved rule

• unless the rule was configured for a particular model previously.
• If the rule is active in the current model, you can decide if the change should affect only the current model or globally.

Remember, changes made in the rule list using quick configuration only apply to the current model.

Restoring configuration default values

You can always return to the previous configuration of a rule.
If you made changes in the configuration of a Kiuwan rule and click on the "Restore defaults" button:

• If the rule configuration was changed to apply globally and the rule has not been configured for the current model, Kiuwan's default configuration for the rule will be restored.
• If the rule configuration was changed to apply globally and the rule has been configured for the current model, your global default configuration for the rule will be restored.
• If the rule configuration was changed only for the current model,

•  Kiuwan's default configuration for the rule will be restored.

Removing a rule

You can only remove those rules that belong to you. Click the "Remove" button to delete the current rule.
Note that removing a rule will not affect published versions that contain the rule. Those versions will still contain the removed rule.

Bulk edit: changing multiple rules

You can apply a change to multiple rules.

Using the bulk edit menu you can:

• Change the active status of a group of rules. This makes adding or removing rules from the current model quick and easy.
• Change the characteristic classification of a group of rules.
• Change the priority of a group of rules.
• Change the effort needed to repair a violation of a group of rules.
• Add tags to a group of rules.
• Remove tags from a group of rules.
• Restore the default configuration of a group of rules.
• Remove a group of rules.

These actions behave the same way as their single rule counterpart.
Once in the bulk edit window, you will be able to select those rules that you want to apply the changes to:
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