Drop-down lists for the instruction and operand fields in rate routine steps

The Instruction drop-down list contains properties or local variables that are writable. The list can also contain functions that return void.

The items in the Operand drop-down list depend upon on the Instruction and Op selections:

• If the Instruction is the assignment operator, PolicyCenter displays operands of the same type as the Instruction.
• If the step has an arithmetic operator, PolicyCenter displays operands of a type compatible with the arithmetic expression.
• If the step has a rounding operator, PolicyCenter displays scale operands.
• If you do not specify Instruction and Op, then PolicyCenter displays operands of all types. The Constant operand is checked but grayed out indicating that you can type a constant directly into the Operand text field.

For example, you have a step with an Instruction set to Base Rate which is a numeric value. In the Operand drop-down list, Conditional is grayed out because Conditional returns a Boolean. The Operand drop-down list contains Parameters, but only lets you select numeric types.