Vocabulary

The vocabulary comprises terms and phrases that are attached to the elements of the business object model (BOM). You use the vocabulary to create business rules and decision tables.

Automation Decision Services verbalizes BOM elements to make them visible in business rules and decision tables. When you build an external library, a vocabulary file is automatically created. This file contains a verbalization that is generated by default for BOM elements. This default verbalization can be customized.

When you create a BOM entry, you can choose to verbalize the business elements to create a vocabulary. A default verbalization is then applied to all attributes, getters, setters, and static references in the BOM entry. You can create a code-like verbalization of all other methods by updating the vocabulary file.

Business rules and decision tables use the vocabulary. If you do not verbalize a business element, that element is not part of the vocabulary, and therefore not visible from business rules and decision tables.

You can translate the vocabulary, and use several vocabularies in different languages on top of the same business object model. The locale of your decision service determines which translation is used.