You can edit business rules directly in Decision Center, but you can also use Rule Solutions for Office to edit rules offline with the Microsoft Office tools that you are already familiar with.
In this task, you edit a decision table in Decision Center and make changes in Rule Solutions for Office, and then you update the changes in Decision Center.
This task should take you about 15 to 30 minutes to complete.
To enable the direct edit mode:
In this step, you open a decision table from Decision Center to edit it using Rule Solutions for Office. This generates a Microsoft Excel .xlsx file that contains the decision table.
To edit directly from Decision Center:
You are asked to make your lending criteria less restrictive, so that you reject a loan for someone whose debt-to-income ratio is between 45 and 50 only if the applicant’s credit score is less than 500. To do this, you modify the repayment and score decision table in the Excel file.
To modify a decision table and correct any resulting errors:
In this step, you return to Decision Center to verify that the changes that you made in your Excel file have been taken into account in Decision Center.
To check the changes in Decision Center:
You have completed the getting started tutorial to discover business rules in Decision Center. To find out more information on the tasks that you have performed, see Summary.