Becoming familiar with the Business console

The Business console provides a collaborative environment for authoring and managing rules.

If you are an authorized user, logging in gives you access to the Home page. Contact the administrator if you are unable to log in.

After logging in, the Business console presents three tabs:
  • Home: Find useful links about the basic features of Decision Center in Get started, updates about your projects and followed items in Recent activities, Followed Rules, and Rules Recently Worked On.
  • Library: See the available decision services.
  • Work: See a list of all the ongoing activities in which you are a participant, with shortcuts to rename, cancel, or change the status of activities.

When entering your credentials, if you check the option Keep me logged in, you can close your browser window without logging out, and automatically log in as the same user the next time you access the Business console.

Note:

Available features in the Business console may depend on your user profile. This arrangement helps ensure the full review of rules before they are deployed to a production environment.

User profile

You can edit your user profile and select options according to your preferences. Your user options apply only to your account in the Business console. They do not affect any other users. To edit your profile, click Profile in the drop-down list next to the user name in the top banner of the Business console.

You can set the following options:
  • Add a user photo.
  • Display: Change your display name and select your preferred language. By default, the language is determined by a parameter in the URL that you use to access the Business console, or by the language of your browser if the URL has no language parameter. For information about how to set the browser language, refer to the help documentation for your browser.

    You can change the language of the Business console to one in the list of languages, only if your development team translates the Business console environment and provides you with translated projects.

  • Grid columns: Select and order the columns used to display the properties of rules, decision tables, ruleflows, and variable sets in:
    • The Decision Artifacts tab.
    • The query results in the Queries tab.
  • Automatically follow: Specify what activities to follow.

Direct links

Any URL in the Business console is accessible externally. You can bookmark these URLs in your browser, or reference them from an external source, and navigate directly to a specified branch, release, activity, or project element.