Creating preupdate rules for custom entities

You can create preupdate rules for entities that you create—entities that are not part of the base Guidewire ContactManager configuration.

• The entity must implement the Validatable delegate with an implementsEntity element that has its Name set to Validatable.
• The preupdate and validation rule sets that you want the custom entity to trigger must conform to the following naming convention:
  • Put your preupdate rules in the Preupdate rule set category and name the rule set entity-namePreupdate.
  • Put your validation rules in the Validation rule set category and name the rule set entity-nameValidationRules.

  You must create a rule set category with the same name as the extension entity and add the word Preupdate to it as a suffix. You then put your rules in this rule set.

  For example, if you create an extension entity named NewEntityExt, you need to create a rule set to hold your preupdate rules and name it NewEntityExtPreupdate.

See also

• For information on creating new rule sets, see Working with rules.