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Clusters are deprecated and have been removed in major release 11. Please use Labels instead.

When projects grow bigger, the need to neatly organize the model grows accordingly, especially concerning logic elements. Dealing with large numbers of decision tables, business rules etc. can become a challenge. It is possible to use clusters. A cluster is a global element that can be created in the menu Globals and is a word (label) that can be chosen at will. labels. One or more labels can be assigned to one or more elements. 

Examples of meaningful clusters labels are "Housing benefit eligibility" and "Housing benefit amount" in a housing benefit model or at a more specific level "Income", "Rent" and "Savings". A cluster in itself is just a word and A label has no function other than representing a logical group of elements. Clusters . Labels are not present in the project export and have therefore no effect in the runtime. Labels can be created from various perspectives, like a logical functional unit, a specific task, a specific product or a specific decision.

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Clusters Labels appear in the lists of elements and can be filtered and sortedmodule elements as expansion panels.

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The All module elements that can be clustered are:

  • Decision tables
  • Business rules
  • Reusable expressions
  • External rules
  • Decision trees

For more information on clusters, see

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