Entity Nodes in Policy Designer

An Entity node is an Input node that represents any GE Digital APM entity family. You can use the Entity node to access information that is stored in a record belonging to any GE Digital APM entity family.

An Entity node generates the following outputs:

Any field in the the family that the Entity node represents.
The following system fields that the Entity node represents: Entity Key, Content GUID, Entity ID, and Site Key.

Node Properties

The Properties window for an Entity node contains the items that are described in the following table.

Item	Description	Notes
Primary Record check box	Specifies whether or not the node represents a primary record.	None
Trigger check box	Specifies whether or not changes to the record that is associated with the node will result in policy execution.	None
Family ID list	Specifies the family that the Entity node represents.	The Family ID list contains all of the GE Digital APM entity families from which you can access record information. This value is required. IMPORTANT: Ensure that the family you select has not been excluded from the global search. If it has, you will not be able to assign records from that family to a policy instance.

Item

Description

Notes

Primary Record check box

Specifies whether or not the node represents a primary record.

None

Trigger check box

Specifies whether or not changes to the record that is associated with the node will result in policy execution.

None

Family ID list

Specifies the family that the Entity node represents.

The Family ID list contains all of the GE Digital APM entity families from which you can access record information.

This value is required.

IMPORTANT: Ensure that the family you select has not been excluded from the global search. If it has, you will not be able to assign records from that family to a policy instance.