Business Rules

Business rules provide a standardized form of defining rule engine conditions and actions, which can easily be migrated between systems.

Business rules are typically used by rule handlers such as DroolsProcessEventHandler.

Rule Domains

Rule Domain UI

Opening the Rule Domain screen from Configuration app menu or navigation bar, you will come across a specialized editor, allowing design of new rule domains.

Rules are grouped under "Rule Domains", which specify a set of rules which are evaluated together (such as discounts for a product or promotions for a basket). Rule domains share the following attributes:

• Name: Descriptive name of the rule domain

• Description: Detailed description of the rule domain

• Platform: Target execution platform for the rules in a domain

• Command: Complete command, representing rule domain functions and all the rules in a domain

• Functions: List of functions and their definitions which can be used across all rules in a domain

• Parameters: Additional platform specific parameters

Rules

Rule UI

Rules inside a domain have the following common attributes:

• Name: Descriptive name of the rule

• Description: Detailed description of the rule

• Status: Whether the rule is currently applied or not

• Condition: Condition for qualifying for the rule

• Actions: List of actions to apply if the rule conditions are met

• Command: Full command body for the rule (to use instead of condition and actions)

• Parameters: Additional platform specific parameters