Publishing decision services to Decision Center

For business users and developers to work in collaboration, you publish and synchronize decision services from Rule Designer to Decision Center.

About this task

To work within the governance framework, changes to the decision service in Decision Center take place in the change activities of a release. Both releases and change activities are branches of the decision service.

In Rule Designer, you can have only one branch of the decision service in your workspace at any given time. To synchronize with the different branches in use in Decision Center, connect, disconnect, and reconnect with each branch individually. When you disconnect, keep the connection entries for that branch. These entries are stored as part of the branch, allowing you to reconnect with that branch without introducing conflicts.

You must be familiar with section Branches and releases in synchronization to avoid misuse.

Note: For publishing to work, you must run Rule Designer in the same locale as the locale that is used to persist rules in Decision Center.

To publish a decision service:

Procedure

  1. Right-click the main project of the decision service in Rule Designer, and then click Decision Center > Connect.
  2. Enter the URL and data source information that corresponds to your Decision Center session.

    In the URL, you can use the /decisioncenter extension. If no data source is entered, the wizard uses jdbc/ilogDataSource.

  3. Click Connect to establish the connection with Decision Center.
  4. Proceed with the authentication by entering your security credentials.
  5. Optional: To limit the project elements that are synchronized, select Use the specified query to filter rule elements for synchronization and a query. The list of queries is defined in the decision service and its dependencies.
  6. Click Next. In Synchronization settings, select Use Decision Governance Framework.
  7. In the section Enforce project security, select the check box to publish your project with enforced security in Decision Center. For more information, see Security.
  8. Click Finish to publish the project.

Results

If an error occurs during publishing to Decision Center, the Problems view displays a message, but the publishing completes. Publishing to Decision Center only copies the information. It does not notify Decision Center users of the changes.