Where to work on text link rules

You can edit and create rules directly in the Text Link Rules tab in the Template Editor or Resource Editor view. To help you see how rules might match text, you can run a simulation in this tab. During simulation, an extraction is run only on the sample simulation data and the text link rules are applied to see if any patterns match. Any rules that match the text are then shown in the simulation pane. Based on the matches, you can choose to edit rules and macros to change how the text is matched.

Unlike the other advanced resources, TLA rules are library-specific; therefore, you can only use the TLA rules from one library at a time. From within the Template Editor or Resource Editor, go to the Text Link Rules tab. In this tab, you can specify the library in your template that contains the TLA rules you want to use or edit. For this reason, we strongly recommend that you store all your rules in one library unless there is a very specific reason this isn't desired.