Before you start
This tutorial is for rule developers who want to create and publish a rule project that contains a scorecard. You learn how to add a scorecard to a rule project, define the scoring model, run the scorecard, and publish and deploy the scorecard.
This tutorial is based on the following scenario: a loan company named EZ Loan has implemented a rule project that contains a scorecard for identifying the risk of approving a loan to a potential borrower. In addition to the scorecard, the rule project contains several rules that validate the borrower application information.
Managers of the EZ Loan company decide to take responsibility for managing the loan validation rules, and give their business users access to them using Decision Center. Decision Center is the Operational Decision Manager web application for business users to manage business rules. By providing business rule management access to the business users, they can be more responsive to changes in their loan applications.
You publish a rule project that contains both business rules and a scorecard in the same way as you do for all Rule Designer rule projects.
Scorecards are published to the Decision Center repository as technical rules. This means that you cannot view or manage scorecards in Decision Center.
Learning objectives
In this tutorial, you use Scorecard Modeler to create and publish a rule project that contains a scorecard.
In this tutorial, you learn how to:
- Publish a rule project with a scorecard to the Decision Center repository.
- Deploy a scorecard from Rule Designer.
- Deploy a scorecard from Decision Center.
Time required
This tutorial takes about one hour to complete.
Directory structure
The files for this tutorial are contained in the following directories:
- <InstallDir>\studio\tutorials\scorecard\shared\scoringModel: This directory contains the object model from which you select attributes to define the source scoring model in your scorecard.
- <InstallDir>\studio\tutorials\scorecard\RTSPublish\start: This directory contains files required by the start project. This project references the shared project in the <InstallDir>\studio\tutorials\scorecard\shared\scoringModel directory.
- <InstallDir>\studio\tutorials\scorecard\RTSPublish\answer: This directory contains files required by the executable answer project.
What you need to know
This tutorial is for rule developers who want to learn how to create and run simple scorecards. It assumes that you are familiar with the Eclipse environment, and that you understand basic Rule Designer terms and concepts such as Business Action Language (BAL), Business Object Model (BOM), execution object model (XOM), ruleflow, and verbalization.