Bill Presentment Architecture (BPA) uses rules to determine which template to use to display online or print a bill. When you define a rule, you specify one or more criteria for content item values. You can create different rules to assign templates to present online bills and printed bills.

Each criteria contains:

• Attribute Name: An LOV of content items based on selections made in the Header and Footer display area from the primary or supplementary data source. For details on selecting a content item as an assignment attribute, see Selecting Content Items from Views.

• Condition: A matching state such as equals, is greater than, greater than or equal to, less than or is less than or equal to.

• Value: A user-defined value that occurs on your transactions for the content item selected as the attribute. You can select a value from the list of values, or enter a value.

When you select a bill to view online or print, BPA reviews the rules in the order you specify until it finds a match, and then uses the template associated with the rule to format the bill.

For example, for ABC Company:

• If the Bill To City value on the invoice is Seattle, then you want to use Template ABC1.

• If the Bill To City is any city other than Seattle, then you want to use Template ABC2.

To do this, you can define one rule called ABC-Seattle, as shown in the following table, and assign it to Template ABC1:

You define a second rule, shown in the table below, called ABC and assign it to Template ABC2:

When you order the rules, list ABC-Seattle before the ABC rule.