Factory Flag Rules

A flag rule retrieves information from a flag table. Flag tables have one column for the codes (labeled __mf_key) and other columns for descriptions. Each description column uses a Boolean value—for example, Y (yes), to associate it with one or more codes.

The flag table and flag rule are specified together in a flag-table block directly within the data-set block as shown in the following example:

data-set "Charges" {
  cbase-input "/data/charges.cbase"
  flag-table "Revenue Code Flags" {
    date rule="Posting Date"
    key rule="Revenue Code"
    flag-rule "ICU Charge"
  }
}

This flag rule specifies the following values:

flag-table—Retrieve information from the Revenue Code Flags flag table.
date rule—The relationships between the codes and descriptions are effective as of the posting date, which comes from the source data.
key rule—The values in the __mf_key column are revenue codes.
flag-rule—In the ICU Charge column, any row that has a Y (Yes) indicates an ICU charge.