Approvals review number node

The Approvals review number Business Rules node provided by the reference application is the node used by the example workflow for the rules engine. This node determines the number of reviews configured for an action. The reference example uses only three of the five available reviews.

To simplify writing and maintaining rules for the Approvals rules engine, use fields that are wildcard keys. If the initial table look up does not find a rule, additional table look ups are performed using different combinations of the fields that are specified as wild card keys. The reference rules provide an example of using wildcard key fields.

Node Descriptor

The node descriptor for the review number node is shown in the following XML example:

<nodeDescriptor name="ApprovalsReviewNumNode" type="ESORT">
   <tasks>
      <task name="ApprovalsReviewNumTask"/>
   </tasks>
</nodeDescriptor>

Table 1 shows the fields defined in the reference workflow. These fields relate to the RULES.Approvals_Review_Num_V database view.

Table 1. Approvals review number node table
Field Name	Type	Data Type	Length	Description
approvalsCodeBase	key	char	20	The base code level of the software that contains the component and category of the review request
approvalsCategory	key	char	32	The category of the review request
approvalsAction	wildCardKey	char	32	The action in this category that needs to be reviewed
approvalsRequestingUserRole	wildCardKey	char	48	The user group that the user who initiated the action belongs to
approvalsPartnerId	wildCardKey	char	20	The identifier of the participant for whom the action was requested
approvalsStandardName	wildCardKey	char	12	The message standard for the requested action
approvalsMessageTypeName	wildCardKey	char	12	The message type for the requested action
approvalsBankCode	wildCardKey	char	20	The routing number or BIC for the requested action
approvalsAccountNumber	wildCardKey	char	35	The account number for the requested action
approvalsCreditAmount	startKeyRange	byte	13	The lowest allowed value of the credit amount range for the requested action
approvalsCreditAmountHigh	endKeyRange	byte	13	The highest allowed value of the credit amount range for the requested action
approvalsDeltaCreditAmount	startKeyRange	byte	13	The lowest allowed value of the delta credit amount range for the requested action
approvalsDeltaCreditAmountHigh	endKeyRange	byte	13	The highest allowed value of the delta credit amount range for the requested action
approvalsDebitAmount	startKeyRange	byte	13	The lowest allowed value of the debit amount range for the requested action
approvalsDebitAmountHigh	endKeyRange	byte	13	The highest allowed value of the debit amount range for the requested action
approvalsDeltaDebitAmount	startKeyRange	byte	13	The lowest allowed value of the delta debit amount range for the requested action
approvalsDeltaDebitAmountHigh	endKeyRange	byte	13	The highest allowed value of the delta debit amount range for the requested action
approvalsNumReviews	payload	byte	2	The number of reviews required for the requested action
approvalsReview1Level	payload	byte	2	The permission level that is required to perform the first review for the requested action
approvalsReview2Level	payload	byte	2	The permission level that is required to perform the second review for the requested action
approvalsReview3Level	payload	byte	2	The permission level that is required to perform the third review for the requested action