How action rules work

Action rules use a sentence-like structure to facilitate the creation business rules.

How action rules work
You express business policies in rules that match actions to conditions.
Rule variables
You create a rule variable to define the scope of a rule.
Types of rule variables
You can assign different types of values to your rule variables.
Rule conditions
You use rule conditions to state when to carry out the rule actions in the then and else parts of a rule.
Conditions that compare business terms and values
You can build conditions that compare and manipulate numeric and boolean (true or false) values, dates, business terms, and text strings.
Conditions that test for existence
You can build conditions that check whether one or more business terms of a certain type exist in a set of data.
Conditions that test set membership
You can use conditions to test whether a business term belongs to a set.
Combinations of conditions
You can apply conditions to groups, and test nested groups.
Condition negation
You can set a rule to do an action when a condition is not true.
Rule actions
Rule actions define what to do when the if part of the rule is true or false.
Dependency of rule actions on rule variables
You cannot execute the actions of a rule if the variables of the rule cannot be instantiated by objects.

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