When the business rules manager opens, the Rule Books page displays.
It allows you to browse the business rule groups and their defined operations.
The Rule Books page is the first level of navigation. Its page layout includes
many elements generic to other business rules manager pages.
Content area
The right pane of the
page is the content area and is the main viewing and editing area. It includes
a title section, general information section, and page-specific section.
Note: The
information displayed in the content area depends on whether you are viewing
a Rule Book page, Rule page, Rule Set page, or Decision Table page.
Title section
The title section
includes the following information:
- Path information
- Provides the path to the page, such as the name of the rule book
and the Rule page in the following format.
BusinessRuleGroup01 >
Table1_operation1
Example: CalculateDiscountBRG
> CalculateDiscount
- Rule title
- Includes the resource name and type of business rule in the following
format:
Ruleset112 - Ruleset
Examples: calculateDiscount-Rule
Page, CalculateDiscountRS - Ruleset
- Function buttons
- The function buttons that display on a page depend on the function of
the particular page. The following table lists the possible function buttons
for a page.
Table 1. Button listButton Name |
Function |
Back |
Returns to the previous page. |
Edit |
Enables editing of the Rule page, decision table, or
rule set. |
Save |
Saves the changes to the local copy and goes back to
the previous page. Note that the running server's state has not been changed.
See "Publish" for how to change the server's state. |
Cancel |
Discards and changes to the resource and returns to
the previous page. |
Copy |
Copies either a decision table, or rule set in order
to create a new decision table, or rule set. You must copy an existing rule
and then modify the values in order to make a new rule. |
Publish |
Publishes the Rule page to the server. |
Revert |
Cancels all changes to the rule that have been saved
locally and reverts the rule to the original copy that resides in the database.
Rules cannot be reverted after publishing. |
- Message field
- Shows the status of an action that has been taken to the rule or that
an error has occurred. The following are examples of status messages.
"calculateDiscount"
has been temporarily saved.
You may publish the changes
from the "Publish and Revert" page.
General Information section
This
general information section contains the following information.
Note: The
Rule Books page does not include this section.
- Last Published
- Shows the last published date of the Rule page, rule set, or decision
table.
- Status
- Shows whether the Rule page, rule set, or decision table is in edit mode
or has been published.
- Description
- Provides a brief description of the Rule page, rule set, or decision table.
Restriction: Do not use CDATA tags when editing the
description fields for business rule group components and business rules in
business rules manager as they make business rules groups and business rules
uneditable. If CDATA tags exist, open the business rule group
or business rule with an XML editor and manually remove the CDATA tags
from the description fields.
Page-specific information section
The
content of the page-specific information section depends on whether you are
viewing a Rule Book page, Rule page, Rule Set page, or Decision Table page.
For specific information for each of these pages, see the individual topics.
For
the Rule Books page, the section includes the following information:
- Business Rule Resources
- Lists the names of the rule pages, rule sets, and decision tables.
- Description
- Provides either a brief description or name of the Rule page, rule set,
and decision table.
- Action
- Shows the available actions for the corresponding business rule listing.
It is initially empty; but when the group is expanded, an Edit button
appears beside each rule.