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Inline-Rule Duplicate

LAWLIFT automatically recognizes when you create an inline rule where the same wording has already been linked to the same answer before.

In LAWLIFT this note then appears: 

In these cases, LAWLIFT automatically turns the same inline rules into one and the same rule, which is used multiple times within the template.
This means that you only have to change one of these inline rules, which have been merged to form an inline rule if you wish to have a different link for this rule than the one initially set. The change to the link then affects all other places in the template where this same inline rule was recognized. This will save you a lot of time when revising your template. 

Example: Here you can see different inline rules that contain the same text and are linked to the same question. As soon as, for example, rule changes are made to the inline rule "1", this affects all other inline rules with the same text in the entire template, which are also previously linked to the same rule. 
If you first inadvertently link "1" with the answer "option 2" and "2" with the answer "option 1", LAWLIFT merges all inline rules that follow the same logic into a single, multiple inline rules. If you then make a change to one of these exactly identical inline rules because, for example, you want to link "1" with "option 1" and "2" with "option 2" in our case, you only need to do this once. The change is then made at all points in the text where "1" was previously linked with "option 2" and "2" with "option 1". 

Warning

If you create an inline rule that already exists, but do not want the correction of this rule to affect the previously set inline rules with the same name, because the use case is different, you must insert the text with the inline rule you want to correct into LAWLIFT again and correct it again.

 

Tip

If you notice during template construction that an inline rule is misnamed or misruled, you can easily select it from the inline rule library, paste it anywhere you want, and edit it there. Because of the automatic merging of the inline rule, all merged inline rules are now updated throughout the template. Afterwards, you can delete the last added inline rule as needed. This saves you searching for the respective inline rule, especially in complex templates.

 

 

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