Business Rules user interface

Use the Business Rules user interface to create, change, and administer the tables that are required by the Business Rules Server.

Business Rules includes the database tables that it needs. After a database administrator sets up the initial environment, Business Rules users can use the manage releases feature to manage their releases (see Maintaining the Releases). Each release has a set of Business Rules definitions that are based on a set of user-defined database tables. These database tables are in the FTM database and describe the set of rules for the framework that a particular user needs. You can maintain these definitions by importing and exporting the business rules (see Maintaining Business Rules).

The pages of the user interface are grouped by function and accessed by using the resulting navigation tree. Permissions are used to control which of those pages are available to specific users. When you don't have the permissions for a page, you can't see that page in the navigation tree.

Figure 1. Business Rules navigation tree
Administration
	Components
		Validation Rules
			Properties

Configuration
	Validation Rules
		Environments
		Releases
		Comparison
			Releases
			Corresponding-Tables
		Administration
			Range Configuration
			Rule Locks

Permissions

You must have the view permission for a page before you can assign any of the permissions for that page to another user. When you try to assign permissions for a page that you can't view, one of the following user interface changes happens:
  • The page is removed from the navigation tree.
  • The page displays a "Page cannot be displayed" error message when you try to access it.
A group must have the permission to view a page before the users in that group can assign any of the other permissions that are related to that page.

Timestamps

Most of the timestamps that are displayed on the user interface are shown in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) by default. However, the time zone that is used to display timestamps is an individual user preference that you can change by editing the user ID. Timestamps that are received from an external source are displayed without time zone conversion.