Reverse if False
The Reverse if False
tick-box (which is only available on the Advanced
view of the UI Policy and Catalog UI Policy forms), allows us to specify whether the UI Policy Actions
(or Catalog UI Policy Actions
) associated with our UI/Catalog UI Policy have their actions reversed
whenever the Condition
associated with their parent policy does not evaluate to true.
For example, imagine we have a condition [Assigned to][is][empty]
on a UI Policy. When met, a UI Policy Action is triggered, which sets the Assignment group
field to Mandatory
. This way, if we don't have an assigned user, at least we can be sure we have an assigned group.
In this scenario, if we have Reverse if False
enabled, then as soon as the assignment group field contains a value, then not only is the UI Policy Action which made Assignment group
read-only no longer applicable, but another action with the opposite effect is fired, actively setting the Assignment group field to non-mandatory. This applies even if the...