Goodbye, redirection rank. Welcome to rule priorities!

Some times ago, we have been made aware that several customers found it difficult to figure out the concept of rules "rank".

The "rank" of a rule is helpful to elect the redirection to execute when several rules match a given request. However, many users were hesitating when configuring the rank: was the lower rank executed first, or after? Several other concerns about the "rank" have been raised, among others the fact that the rank could not be lower than 0, thus forbidding to insert new rules infront of already existing 0-level rules.

Therefore, we have renamed and migrated the "rank" model to a "priority" property, that can be attached to the redirect rules of your projects just like the rank did before. The legacy rank was somehow limited in the range 0-32768, so we have transformed it into a "priority" property, that can range from -32768 to 32767.

From now, if two redirection rules match a request, then the one with the higher priority will be applied. We have migrated all the existing redirection plans, so you do not notice any issue with existing rulesets.

As before, you can change the priority of each rule inside the rule creation/edition form. You can also add example requests to your rules, and have the relative priorities of rules be auto-defined when tweaking the rules order for a given example. Please read our guide about creating rules to learn more!