Your installation comes with a number of tutorials to help
you become familiar with Rule
Designer.
Note: The tutorials run with the classic rule engine only.
Tutorial: Getting started with business rules
This tutorial helps you to take your first steps with Operational Decision Manager V8.5.1.
In this tutorial, you learn how to use Rule
Designer to
create and run a rule-based application, and Rule Execution Server to
execute the rules. If you are performing this tutorial for the first
time, read the related sections as well.
Tutorial: Defining a vocabulary
This tutorial shows you how to define a vocabulary that
is used to create rules to implement a car rental policy.
Tutorial: Creating your first ruleflow
This tutorial shows you how to construct ruleflows, and
use them to control the execution of business rules. This tutorial
also introduces runtime rule selection, the RetePlus rule execution
mode, and ruleset parameters.
Tutorial: Creating action rules
With this tutorial, you practice using Rule
Designer
editors, create action rule templates, and edit standard Business
Action Language (BAL) constructs.
Tutorial: Editing decision tables
This tutorial shows how to create decision tables for a
reservation application that is used by a car rental company. You
use decision tables because the business rules contain similar actions
and conditions. You learn how to create and use decision tables, format
data display, and import data from an Excel spreadsheet into a decision
table.
Tutorial: Debugging a ruleset
This tutorial shows you how to debug a business rule application
in Rule
Designer.
It includes how to set breakpoints and inspect the agenda. You also
learn how to debug a decision table and a ruleflow.
Tutorial: Debugging an Excel scenario file
This tutorial demonstrates how to debug a ruleset in Rule
Designer using
test data from an Excel scenario file. It includes how to set breakpoints
and inspect variables.
Tutorial: Emitting an event from a rule project
This tutorial shows you how to integrate rules and events
by emitting an event from a rule project. By integrating rules and
events, you can notify external systems about rule decisions, or capture
intermediate data that is computed during decision making.