Task 8: Publishing to Decision Center

You now publish the rule project to Decision Center.

In this task, you make the rule project you developed in Rule Designer available to business users in Decision Center. Decision Center is a web-based environment that allows business users to view, create, and modify rules. From Rule Designer you publish your rule project to Decision Center, and then periodically synchronize the work of the business users with your Rule Designer copy.

Important: This task is optional. To perform this task, you must have Decision Center installed.

Time This task should take you about 10 to 15 minutes to complete.

Step 1: Publish the rule project to Decision Center

Note: Start the sample server, as described in Starting the Miniloan web application, if you have stopped it.

In order to make your rule project available to business users, you need to connect Rule Designer to Decision Center and then publish to it.

To publish the rule project to Decision Center:

In Rule Designer, right-click my rule project, and click Decision Center > Connect.
Complete the Decision Center Configuration dialog as follows.
URL: http://localhost:<PORT>/teamserver

Enter the correct port number in the URL. For more information, see Checking the server port number.

User name: rtsAdmin

Password: rtsAdmin
Click Connect.
When the connection is established, the message Connection with Decision Center successfully established is displayed, and the Project configuration area becomes active.
In the Project configuration area, make sure that Create a new project on Decision Center is selected, and then click Finish.
The Synchronize Complete dialog opens when the publishing process is complete. Click OK to close this dialog.
A dialog opens asking you if you want to change to Team Synchronizing perspective. Click Yes.
An empty Synchronize view opens, indicating that there are no changes in the project. This means that your rules are now published to Decision Center.

Step 2: Explore the rule project in Decision Center

Now that you have published the rule project, you can open Decision Center and see your rules in the business user environment.

To explore the rule project in Decision Center:

From the Start menu, click All Programs > IBM > package_group > Sample Server > Decision Center Enterprise Console.
package_group refers to the package group specified in IBM® Installation Manager during installation. The default package group is Operational Decision Manager V8.5.

Tip: You can also enter the following URL with the correct number in a browser: http://localhost:<PORT>/teamserver/.
Sign in to Decision Center using the following details:
Username: rtsUser1

Password: rtsUser1

Decision Center can handle different user profiles. Here you sign in as a regular business user.
On the Decision Center Home tab, in the Project in use field, select my rule project.
Click the Explore tab.
Under Business Rules, click the validation folder.
Preview the content of the maximum amount rule by clicking Preview beside the name of the rule in the table.
Click the eligibility folder, and then click Preview next to the repayment and score decision table to preview its content.
Click Ruleflows, and then click Preview next to the miniloan ruleflow to preview its content.
Sign out of Decision Center.

Your business logic is now available to business users. You have a rules-enabled application, where the business logic is in the hands of the business user and the execution is monitored by IT. For more information on the tasks that you performed in the tutorial, see Summary.

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