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Changing rule's order

How do I change the order of the rules ? Let's say that I have 15 rules in my controller and then I realized that I need a new rule to run before other rules. Is there a way to do so ? I don't want to believe I need to recreate them all to fix the order. 
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Sallesg
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  • Eddie D
    Hi,
    Thank you for your post into the forum.

    To move the rules into the order you wish them to run, it is a simple matter of drag and drop to have them in a different order.  As Data Masker is multi-threaded, which means rules will execute at the same time.  If you have a rule that is dependent on another rule and you want the rule to execute on a successful completion of another rule, you can setup rule dependencies and rule blocks.  This help article explains how to configure Rule dependencies and Rule blocks. 

    Many Thanks
    Eddie
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  • Sallesg
    Hi Eddie,

    Thanks for your response. I thought it should be as simple as that. However mine doesn't move to other places, and I don't know why. When dragging the rule, I can see the arrows, either a straight green or curved blue one, and I expected to be place where I release them. Its just that it doesn't move at all. While dragging I can also see a "not allowed" (unfortunately the icon was not captuted in the printscreen), so that should explain why it doesn't move. In the other hand, I can't move to create a dependency, not just change the order. The question is : why ? 


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  • Eddie D
    Hi, thank you for your reply.

    Based on screen shot, if you need rule 01-0015 to execute after Rule 01-0022, simply drag and drop it so becomes dependent on rule 01-0022 successfully executing before running rule 01-0015.  Rule 01-0015 becomes xx-0015 as below:



    Another method to having rules to run later, is to set a rule block. So using Rule 01-0015 as the example, highlight the rule and click the Bulk Change RuleBlock button ->set the New rule block for rules value, in my example I entered the number 5 ->Clicked  Change Rule Block button ->Clicked Done button.  Rule 01-0015 becomes rule 05-0015.  So Rule block 5 will not execute until all the rules in rule block 1 have successfully completed.

    Many Thanks
    Eddie


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