Add the rate routine variant identifier to the rate routine plugin

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Before you begin, you must complete Add the variant identifier to the data model.

About this task

The built-in implementation of the rate routine plugin (IRateRoutinePlugin) is RateRoutinePlugin.gs in the gw.plugin.rateflow package. The getter for the BranchingFields property returns an ordered list of zero or more variant identifiers.

Procedure

In the implementation of the rate routine plugin, add the name of the variant identifier to the fields variable of the getter for the BranchingFields property.

For example, add NewVariantIdentifier to the fields variable as follows:

override property get BranchingFields() : IEntityPropertyInfo[] {
    var fields : ArrayList<String> = {"Jurisdiction", "NewVariantIdentifier"}
    ...
}

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