Precedence is a fundamental concept employed by Expere IE that drives the relationships between pieces of the overall Expere system.
- Utilizing base Expere Knowledge Base content (language, rules, etc.).
- Superseding (replacing) base Expere Knowledge Base or other parent\ancestor organization content at a particular org level and its descendents.
- Creating custom Expere Knowledge Base content for use at a specific org level and its descendents.
Several organizations may exist in an enterprise and relate to each other in a hierarchical fashion. For example, a banking business with multiple branches or lines of business. Precedence is the expression of that organization hierarchy in the Expere system. At the top of the hierarchy is Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, representing standard, or base, content. A particular financial institution and any sub-organizations (e.g., lines of business) are children of the parent (Wolters Kluwer Financial Services) from a organizational point of view.
Operationally, precedence works to override content from the top (parent) to the lower (child) organizations. For example, all base content fragments that might be included in a document are attached to the Wolters Kluwer Financial Services precedence level and may be overridden at any other level in the hierarchy. If Organization 2 overrides a particular content fragment, documents assembled in the context of Organization 5 or Organization 6 will incorporate the override rather than the base version of that fragment, but organizations 4, 9, and 10 would be unaffected.
Each organization in the precedence hierarchy is identified by a Universal Unique Identifier (UUID). When making a call to the ExpereAPI, it is important to understand and be aware of the precedence hierarchy and associated IDs, as an organization ID is a required parameter on several of the request messages in the ExpereAPI.
