Task 7: Publishing to Decision Center

You publish your rule project to Decision Center so that it can be used by business users.

About this task

You now make your rule project available in Decision Center, a web-based environment in which business users view, create, and modify rules. You publish your rule project from Rule Designer to Decision Center, and periodically synchronize the work of the business users with your Rule Designer copy.

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

Step 1: Publishing the rule project to Decision Center

You connect Rule Designer to Decision Center, and then publish your rule project to Decision Center.

Procedure

  1. Ensure that the sample server is started (see Starting the Miniloan web application).
  2. In Rule Designer, right-click my decision service, and click Decision Center > Connect.
  3. Complete the Decision Center Configuration dialog as follows:
    • URL: http://localhost:<PORT>/decisioncenter

      Enter the correct port number in the URL (see Checking the server port number).

    • User name and password: odmAdmin
  4. Click Connect.

    When the connection is established, the following message is displayed and the Project configuration area becomes active: Connection with Decision Center established:

    Image shows the connection to Decision Center.
  5. Click Next, and select Use Decision Governance Framework to publish the rule package as a decision service in Decision Center.
  6. Click Finish.
  7. The Synchronize Complete message opens when the publishing process is finished. Click OK to close this dialog.
    Tip: To view the Synchronize Complete message, you might have to click No Changes in the lower right corner of workbench window.
  8. The Confirm Open Perspective dialog asks whether you want to change to the Synchronize View. Click Yes.

    An empty Synchronize View opens, indicating that there are no changes in the project. Your rules are now published to Decision Center.

Step 2: Exploring the rule project in Decision Center

You open the Decision Center Business console to see your rules in the web-based editing environment.

Procedure

  1. Open the Decision Center Business console:
    • On Windows, click Start > All > IBM Operational Decision Manager <version> > Decision Center Business console.
    • On all platforms, enter the following URL with the correct port number in a web browser: http://localhost:<PORT>/decisioncenter/
  2. Use odmAdmin as the user name and password:
  3. Click Library.
    The library opens on the decision services by default.
  4. Click my decision service.
    The decision service shows tabs for releases and branches.
  5. Click Branches > main to view your rules.
  6. In the Decision Artifacts tab, click All Projects > All Types > Apply to see all the artifacts in the decision service.
  7. In the Validation package, click maximum amount to see the contents of the rule:
    Image shows the contents of the maximum amount rule.
  8. Click my decision service to return to the project rules.
  9. In the eligibility package, click repayment and score to see the contents of the decision table.
    Note: The warning icons indicate empty cells. These cells fill gaps in the table, and they are ignored at run time.

Results

You have completed the tutorial. Your business rules are now available in Decision Center, and can be maintained by business users.