DMN12 — Return All Annotations for All Hit Policies

Typically, we want to know all the reasons for a conclusion and this requires metadata information about all the Hits even when returning a single conclusion.

For example, for an ‘Any’ Hit Policy Decision Table that results in the conclusion ‘Ineligible’ we want to know that the reasons are ‘Credit score too low’ and ‘Debt-to-income ratio too high’. Similarly, for an aggregated result using ‘Sum’ in the Decision ‘Total Tuition’, besides the total of $1,300, we want to know that the total includes ‘Materials $350’ and ‘Classes $950’.

Possible approaches:
1. Attribute on the Decision Table itself that includes a list of annotation columns to return in full regardless of the Hit Policy.
2. By default, always return all the annotations.

Annotation Outputs

See attached (version 6).
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