Transforming a "result" attribute into a non-result one

[Yi Lin]

Hello 

I need to transform a "Result" attribute into a normal (non-result) attribute.

Are there any best practices for doing this?

 

[Enrico]

Thank you for contacting us on the Community!

We're going to guide you through all the steps to move your attribute to the non-result group. In this example, we're using one of our scenarios.

First things first, let's open the Data Manager: as you can see, the pred(churn) attribute is a result attribute.

1. Create a new attribute, called 'DUMMY_NONRES'. It will be located right before the pred(churn) attribute, so that the 'DUMMY_NONRES' attribute becomes a divider between the results and non-results attributes, as it is the 'last' non-result attribute in our list.

    

2. Then, simply move the pred(churn) attribute before the 'DUMMY_NONRES' attribute.

   

3. Remove the 'DUMMY_NONRES' attribute, so that your dataset is clean.

4. Save and compute the task.

This procedure is valid with Rulex 4 only. In Rulex Factory, you don't even need to perform this operation, as a divider indicating Results is provided in the Data Manager. So, you just need to move the attribute to the desired section, then save and compute the task, and you're good to go!

I hope it helps!

[Yi Lin]

I tried this procedure and it worked, thank you! 

But... What if I need to move the attribute to the "results" section?

[Enrico]

Oh, it's very easy!

You just need to move the attribute you want to transform into a "result" to the bottom of the attributes list, if there are other attributes which are categorized as "result".