Rule fragments in shortcut rules

Question

I had a shortcut rule table that wasn't working, something along the lines of:
Shortcut rule*
the outcome of the transaction
"Outcome A" - AttributeX = 5
"Outcome B" - AttributeX = 6
"Outcome C" - AttributeY is true
"Outcome D" - AttributeZ is true
I thought the reason it may not be working was because I had conditions on multiple attributes within a single table. Thinking that rule fragments may be the answer, I split the rule into 3 fragments (each a shortcut rule, but still tables as I don't seem to be able to set the value of a text attribute any other way).
rule_property[fragment:1]
Shortcut rule*
the outcome of the transaction
"Outcome A" - AttributeX = 5
"Outcome B" - AttributeX = 6
rule_property[fragment:2]
Shortcut rule*
the outcome of the transaction
"Outcome C" - AttributeY is true
rule_property[fragment:3]
Shortcut rule*
the outcome of the transaction
"Outcome D" - AttributeZ is true
However, regardless of the values of attribues X, Y and Z, the rule always seems to set the value to Outcome A, any ideas? Is it permitted to use rule fragments in shortcut rules?

Answer 1

Going back to what I assume the original Word table looked like...
| the outcome of the transaction          |
| "Outcome A" | Attribute X = 5               |
| "Outcome B" | Attribute X = 6               |
| "Outcome C" | Attribute Y is true          |
| "Outcome D" | Attribute Z is true          |
| uncertain   | else                    |
-------------------------------------------------... you commented that "regardless of the values of attribues X, Y and Z, the rule always seems to set the value to Outcome A". I just tried the same rule table and it behaved exactly as I expected, so I think it's worth explaining how Word rule tables work.
Word rule tables start from the top of the table and work down until finding a table row for which the conditions are satisfied. If X = 5, then the first conditional row is satisfied and the conclusion is set to A. It doesn't matter what the values of Y and Z are, they will not impact the conclusion once X is set to 5.
If X is unknown, and Y=true, then the conclusion will be unknown. This is because it's not even going to get to the third conditional row until all conditional rows above have been disproven. Whereas if X=7 and Y=true, then the conclusion will be set to C, since the first and second conditional rows have been disproven, i.e. proven not to be 5 or 6. Make sense? :)
So when you were seeing the conclusion being set to A, regardless of the value of Y and Z, it must have been because X was set to 5 or 6. If there's a logic order to how you'd progress through the options, then just use that order in the rows of your rule table. Presumably you need to think thorough this logic anyway since you need to think about what's meant to happen if X=5 and Y=true? Should the conclusion be set to A or C? If it's the case that when Y=true, it trumps everything and the conclusion should be C, then just make that the first conditional line of your rule table.