About Compatibility Rules

There are two kinds of reasons for needing compatibility rules: marketing-related and engineering-related reasons. The Product Manager typically focuses on marketing-related compatibility rules. For example, your company may not want to allow two options to be included in a product configuration to avoid undercutting another product line. The Design Engineer typically focuses on engineering-related compatibility rules. For example, one feature/option pair might be incompatible with another because the shipping crate isn't large enough to accommodate both.

Related Topics
Compatibility Rules Page
Copying Compatibility Rules
Creating a Compatibility Rule

These compatibility rules are based on a compatibility operator and the value of two expressions, a left and a right expression. The compatibility operator (which can be incompatible, co-dependent, or requires) decides how the two expressions are interpreted relative to each other. The left and right expressions can be any valid boolean expression (with and, or, not, [,],) that includes feature/option pairs as the operands.

In the boolean expression, the feature/option pair is enclosed in double quotes.