Understanding Rule Types

Server-side and client-side rules

Every industry model provides the following basic feature rules:

• Server-side feature rules: When you create an industry model in the Data Model Administrator, the industry model contains several server-side feature rules. The TB_RULE_DEF table contains the server-side feature rules.
• Client-side feature rules: Client-side feature rules control Coordinate Geometry (COGO) dimensioning, area topologies, logical topologies, templates, and the utility model. Client-side feature rules are applied when users interact with features or when operations require a large amount of memory or calculating power.

Module-specific feature rules

Module-specific feature rules control capabilities that are specific to the feature classes in a vertical application module. For example, you can associate a feature rule with the Duct feature class in the Electric CE module to create a conductor when a Duct feature is created. This feature rule is not applicable to feature classes in other modules.

The following vertical application modules have module-specific feature rules:

Electric CE

Electric NA

Gas

Wastewater

Water

Survey

Extension feature rules

Extension-specific feature rules are enabled when you add an extension to your industry model, for example, the Plot extension.