Finding references

Tech preview You can locate where specific data types and attributes are used in your decision service, improving traceability and navigation.

About this task

By enabling Automatic indexing, you can search for data types and attributes in your decision service, filter results, and navigate directly to their occurrences. You can also find where data types and attributes are used in the decision logic of decision nodes.

By default, this feature is disabled. Enable it manually for each decision service before you use it.

Procedure

To enable Automatic indexing:

  1. Open the Decision services tab on your decision automation page in Decision Designer.
  2. Click the overflow menu overflow menu for your decision service, and select Edit settings. Alternatively, open your decision service, and then click the Decision service settings icon Decision service settings.
  3. Enable Automatic indexing (technical preview) from the options in the window.
  4. Click Save.

Results

You can now see where the selected data types and attributes are used in your decision service.

Search from a data model:
  1. From your decision service, navigate to the Data tab, and open your data model.
  2. Select a data type or an attribute from the left panel. The Find references section appears on the right.
  3. Click the Expand expand icon to view all instances where the selected data type or attribute is used.

    You can filter results by name and type. For data types, you can also filter results by source.

  4. Click a path in the search results to navigate directly to where the data type or attribute is used.

You can save search results for quick access by clicking the Pin icon pin. Pinned searches appear in the upper-right section. However, pinning a new search replaces the previous pinned result.

Restriction: Test data sets are not yet part of the search scope.
Search in the decision logic:
  1. From your decision service, open your decision model.
  2. Select a decision node and open the Logic tab.
  3. Under Filter by data type, choose a data type from the drop-down.
  4. To filter by attribute, select an attribute under Filter by attribute.