Rule Tester - Analyze with Rules!

Have you ever tried the "Rule Tester" functionality that is available within IDM?
This feature is available within the Debug pages and lets you, as an administrator, execute rules available in the repository.

Why is that necessary? - Primarily to analyze the run-time behavior of the system within the specific environment IDM is deployed in. This is very useful when debugging a certain issue, where testing an xpress-script outside of development-setup is crucial to resolve the issue on hand.

While the out-of-the-box functionality allows testing of rules, it lacks an interface that allows debugging issues extensively.
So, here is Rule-Tester, another small plugin to IDM that improves your ability to programmatically identify and analyze system-behavior - simply by executing rules.

• You can execute Rules in libraries too, not just the "direct-call" rules.
• You can write a new rule-script and test it on the fly (no import needed!).
• Arguments are now prompted based on the rule-definition, and values can be supplied as null, string, integer, boolean or xmlobject datatypes. No more guess-work on what arguments each rule accepts.
• The rule-execution trace can be viewed on the same page as the results.
• Errors in script-execution are highlighted in red. This makes identifying environment-issues much easier!
• You can select the "RunAs" option to execute a Rule. This comes in handy when the same rule is to be tested against different administrator-capabilities.
• A larger script obviously needs larger writing-space; Rule-Tester allows you to adjust the size of text-boxes as needed.
• Write the script without worrying about the xml-formatting. Rule-Tester automatically formats the code-snippet and gives back the xml that is easy to read.
• Installation cannot get any easier. Just copy the jsp in the /idm/debug/ directory, that's it!
• It's free! And the source code is available for you to customize as you desire (copyright terms specified in the jsp).

• Browse to the /idm/debug directory of your IDM installation and rename the file "Test_Rule.jsp" to "Test_Rule-orig.jsp".
• Click here to download the zip file. It contains 1 jsp file.
• Extract the jsp from the downloaded zip file into the /debug directory within your IDM installation.
• Restart your application server.
• Login to the administrative console, navigate to idm/debug/session.jsp and click on the "Test Rule" button.