Observe operating system length restrictions on rule names

Guidewire stores rules in files within a directory structure that mimics the rule set category structure in Studio. The fully qualified path for a rule file can be quite long, depending on:

• The length of the path to your Guidewire installation directory
• The length of the path from your installation directory to the root of the rules directory, which is 34 characters:

      modules/configuration/config/rules
  

• The depth of the hierarchy of rule categories, rule sets, rules, and parent/child rules
• The length of individual rule names

In addition, you must add four characters to the path for the name of each rule category, rule set, and parent rule.

You must understand the file system implications of rule names. Windows file systems have a file path limit of 255 characters. To avoid exceeding the limit, Guidewire recommends that you do the following:

• Avoid a long path to your Guidewire installation directory.
• Avoid deep hierarchies of rule set categories.
• Avoid hierarchies of parent and child rules within a rule set deeper than three levels.
• Avoid long names for rule set categories, rule sets, and rules.