Before you start

Prepare for the tutorial by reading its description, and checking the audience and prerequisites.
In this tutorial, you work on Miniloan Service, a decision service that a fictitious loan company uses to determine whether borrowers are eligible for loans. The decision service processes data that includes loan durations, credit scores, and loan amounts.

You make your changes in the Decision Center Business console, which is a shared rule-editing environment. When you work on changes that might be used in a decision service, you can create a branch that isolates your work. The changes that you make in your branch do not affect the other branches in the decision service until you share them.

To add your changes to another branch, you can use the merge feature in the Business console. It lets you select the branches, changes, and update options, and it provides progress information about your updates.

In this tutorial, you create a branch in a decision service. You change three rules in the branch, and merge changes into another branch. Then, you check the second branch to ensure that it contains your changes.

Learning objectives

You do the following tasks:
  • Compare branches before merging changes.
  • Select changes and update options.
  • Merge changes between branches.
  • Verify your changes by using a snapshot.

The tutorial does not cover collaborative development in the decision governance framework. You work in an ungoverned branch of the decision service, and not in a release.

Time required

This tutorial should take approximately 30 minutes to finish. If you explore other concepts related to this tutorial, it could take longer to complete.

Audience

The tutorial is for users who want to merge branches in the Business console.

Prerequisites

You work in the Miniloan Service decision service, the sample project that is available in the Rule Designer section of the cloud portal. You must have Rule Designer installed on your computer to publish the decision service to Decision Center.

To publish the decision service and create one of the branches for the tutorial, see Preparing and removing the tutorial project.

Important:

The sample project is in English.

More information

If you are not familiar with the Decision Center Business console or the merge function, you can learn more in the following sections:

Best practices

This tutorial includes the following best practices for merging branches:
  • Keep Lock branches before merge selected to prevent other users from making changes to the branches while you merge them. Example...
  • Check the merge results by comparing snapshots. Example...