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How do I use the Weight setting of a Cascade? The cascade weight field lets NATS randomly switch between two or more cascades.

Finding the Weight setting

Go to the Billers Admin and Edit the desired cascade.

If more than one cascade exists with the exact same description, then NATS selects which cascade to use when the join form loads. This selection is based on the total weight of all cascades that share a description. Figure 1.4 depicts how this process works:

Figure 1.4 provides an example cascade scenario that involving three cascades all with the same description and different weight values. Since they all have the same description, NATS creates a "pool" of all the cascades. This "pool" contains 75 copies of the Third Cascade, 100 copies of the Second Cascade, and 50 copies of the First Cascade for a total of 225. After NATS creates this pool, it randomly selects which cascade to use from said pool, which means that the more "entries" that there are in this pool for a single cascade, the more often it will be selected.