Organizing your rules

Over time, as you automate more and more tasks in more and more of your projects, it is going to become more complex to manage and keep track of all your automation rules.

The best way to deal with an ever-increasing number of automation rules, and configurations in general, is to logically organize each rule.

In this section, we'll look at some best practices to keep your rules optimally organized, which will make them easier to find and manage.

We'll start by looking at what should be a familiar concept to anyone who has had to deal with maintaining large numbers of system configurations: naming conventions.

Using naming conventions

Using a well-defined naming convention allows users to consistently identify rules and allows you to organize your rules in a meaningful way.

A good naming convention needs to be planned in advance, documented, and made visible to everyone who is going to be managing automation rules.

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