You can activate draft rules and make them available for use in Contract Expert.
Note: You must assign at least one contract template to the rule, but the contract template need not be in the Approved status.
Navigate to the Rules page.
Navigation: Contract Expert > Rules tab
Search for the rule that you want to activate.
The system displays the rules that match your search criteria.
Click Activate.
The active Rules: Confirmation page appears. This page provides validation information on rules that are eligible to be published and those rules that cannot be published due to validation problems.
The validations include the following:
The rule contains invalid clauses (that is, clauses that are not in the Approved status) in conditions or results.
The rule contains questions with invalid value sets. That is, the value set is not valid either because it was set up incorrectly or because a value set has been removed. For details of setting up value sets, see the prerequisites in the Creating User Questions section.
The rule contains no contract template assignments.
The rule contains inactive questions.
Values that are used in rules are invalid. For instance, the values that are used in a value set are no longer valid.
If validation errors occur, you cannot complete rule activation. You must first correct the errors, and then restart the Rule Activation process.
When the Activate Rules: Confirmation page shows only rules that are ready to be activated, click Finish.
This generates the following processes:
The system submits the Contract Expert: Activate Rules concurrent program, and the status of the rule is changed to Active (in Progress).
If the program finishes successfully, the status of the rule changes to Active.
If any system errors are encountered during the activation process, the system stops the concurrent program, and the status of the rule remains Active (in Progress). The rule will be picked up for disabling the next time that you select other rules to be activated.
Alternatively, you can run the Contract Expert: Activate Rules concurrent program manually from the Contract Terms Library Administrator responsibility.
On successful completion of the rule activation process, the system makes the rule available for use in Contract Expert.
Note: To improve database performance, run the following Configurator concurrent programs periodically:
Purge Configurator Tables: This program physically removes all logically deleted records in the tables and subschemas of the CZ schema.
Purge to Date Configurator Import Tables: This program deletes data in the CZ_IMP tables, and the corresponding data in the CZ_XFR_RUN_INFOS and CZ_XFR_RUN_RESULTS control tables. The data for the number of days, which is specified in the Input parameter, is retained.
For more information, see the Oracle Configurator Implementation Guide. For additional information about improving database performance, see the Oracle Configurator Performance Guide.