Before you start

Prepare for the tutorial by reading its description, and checking the audience and prerequisites.

A fictitious online lender uses business rules to determine whether customers are eligible for loans. You must add an age test and a group of new rules to a decision table that checks eligibility. You log in to the Decision Center Business console, and work on the decision table in a decision service.

Learning objectives

You learn how to do the following tasks:

Find a decision table in the Business console.
Understand how the table works.
Create a new column in the table.
Add condition variables to the table.
Fix errors in the table.

Time required

This tutorial should take approximately 20 minutes to finish. If you explore other concepts related to this tutorial, it could take longer to complete.

Audience

This tutorial is intended for nontechnical users who want to update decision tables in the Business console.

Prerequisites

You do this tutorial in the Business console. If you do not have a Decision Center account, your system administrator must provide one.

You need the following items to do the tutorial:

A web address for the Business console.
The Loan Validation Service decision service in the Business console library.

Best practices

This tutorial includes the following best practices for editing a decision table:

Edit the rule conditions and actions through the column headers. Example...
Insert a row into a decision table to add a rule. Example...
Test input data by using preconditions. Example...