IBM BPM, V8.0.1, All platforms > Authoring services in Integration Designer > Developing business processes > Create business rules
Building business rules: task roadmap
A high-level view of the development of a business rule is presented.
You are in the process of planning your business process.
Procedure
- Decide if a business rule is an appropriate solution for your business process. A business rule is an ideal solution when you want to have flexibility to change your business process at run time.
- Create a rule group. The rule group is the primary element of a business rule, it provides the interface between the business process and the rule logic. The rule group also defines date ranges during which specific rule logic applies.
- Decide which rule logic to use. Some business rules are better suited to a decision table, some to a rule set.
- Create your chosen rule logic. The rule logic is either a rule set or a decision table.
- Create templates for your rule logic. By creating a template for your rule set or decision table you can build up a library of rule logics that you can reuse in the future. The template also allows you to stipulate which parameters of the rule logic can be modified by the business analyst using the Business Rule Manager. Additionally constraints can be applied to these parameters so that the changes made with the Business Rule Manager are within acceptable ranges.
- Assemble your rule group into a business process, test and deploy.