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.
You must have administrator rights for the initial publishing of a decision service to Decision Center.
You can publish changes to a release branch if you connect with administrator rights. This privilege is offered for flexibility, but use it with restraint, because it circumvents the governance framework. Synchronizing the release is the only way dependencies of a decision service can be changed.
You can also publish changes to a release branch if you are owner of the release, or owner of an activity within this release. To be able to publish, you must set the configuration parameters Allow release owner to publish in their release, and Allow activity owner to publish in parent release to true in the Installation Settings Wizard of the Enterprise console. For more information about how to access this wizard, see Overview: Installation Settings Wizard.
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 should be familiar with section Branches and releases in synchronization to avoid misuse.
To publish a decision service:
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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.