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Create business rules

To create and work with business rules, use the business rules editors.

The business rules editors display visual representations of business policy. You use these tools to visually create, manipulate and schedule business rules.

Business rules can only be deployed to the IBM BPM.

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• Business rules
  A business rule is a condition that must be satisfied when a business activity is being performed. A rule can enforce a business policy, make a decision, or infer new data from existing data.
• When to use business rules
  A business rule is anything that captures and implements business policies and practices. A rule can enforce business policy, make a decision, or infer new data from existing data.
• Building business rules: task roadmap
  A high-level view of the development of a business rule is presented.
• Choose between a rule set and a decision table
  

  You can capture business rule logic using either a rule set or a decision table. Here are some suggestions for how to decide which format to use.

• Create a rule group
  Create a rule group as a container for your business rules.
• Create a rule set
  This topic provides instructions on how to create a new rule set.
• Create a decision table
  This topic provides instructions on how to create a new decision table.
• Weak type support with business rules
  Business object definitions can have XSD wildcards that can be used in business rules logic.
• Business rule management programming guide
  The Business rule management programming guide explains the programming model for business rules management classes, and provides examples on how to use the different classes.
• Choose the correct template parameter values
  To make sure that you don't have any syntax inconsistencies with template parameters in the runtime environment, understand the following.
• Refactoring business rules
  When you refactor parts of your business rules, dependencies on those parts are automatically and universally updated throughout the product as a whole.
• Launching the Business Process Rules Manager
  The Business Process Rules Manager is a web client that allows dynamic control of parameter values in template based rules that are deployed to the Websphere IBM BPM.

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