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Selection Rule Type - Edit Mandatory and Weighting

  • March 26, 2026
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  • Do Gooder (Customer)

Hi IFS Community,

with the 25R1 release, the Selection Rules functionality was extended (e.g. rule types and weighting), which is a very welcome improvement. However, the current solution leaves some gaps and we are unclear if these are supposed to be filled in future releases.

Our Use Case 

We use Selection Rules to distribute Service Requests into the correct delivery units. For our setup, Region and Model criteria are essential. The Service criteria, however, is largely irrelevant, as the organizational structure is the same for most services.

Current Limitation

At the moment, the Service criteria is mandatory, which forces us to duplicate the entire Selection Rule set for each service (≈ 50 services) leading to a huge data volume in the table and the maintenance effort coming with it.

Observation in the UI / Page Designer

In both the UI and the Page Designer, it appears that:

  • Criteria might be configurable as mandatory vs. optional
  • Criteria might support individual weighting

These settings seem to be defined, but cannot currently be edited.

 

Is the ability to configure mandatory/optional criteria and criteria weighting an intended feature that is planned for a future release, or is this intentionally restricted by design?

 

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@Alexander Heinze can you please have a look at the question or point us in the right direction?


Alexander Heinze
Ultimate Hero (Employee)
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No change in 26R1, ​@anmise can you comment, please?


  • Superhero (Employee)
  • April 16, 2026

Hi ​@TFREY  ​@Michael Adam JH  ​@Alexander Heinze 

we have plans to look at how we can enhance these rules and one thing we are considering is adding Service Type to reduce the number of records you’d need to cover a set of services. Would that help you guys? 
Another thing we’ll look at is to make the weighting configurable. I’m hoping to get to it during 2026 but not entirely set in stone. 


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  • Do Gooder (Customer)
  • April 17, 2026

Hi ​@TFREY  ​@Michael Adam JH  ​@Alexander Heinze 

we have plans to look at how we can enhance these rules and one thing we are considering is adding Service Type to reduce the number of records you’d need to cover a set of services. Would that help you guys? 
Another thing we’ll look at is to make the weighting configurable. I’m hoping to get to it during 2026 but not entirely set in stone. 

Hi ​@anmise thanks for the answer!

Service type would already help us a good bit, going from a multiplicator of ~50 to ~8 for the selection rule lines and allowing us to scale service catalog entries more easily. I think having any service-related criteria completely optional would still be a little bit better, but this service type addition would solve our biggest concerns here

Regarding a timeline, this would be specifically relevant when we roll out to larger sales unit with a lot of service delivery units approaching mid/end of 2027 

FYI ​@Michael Adam JH