Copying entity-specific rules between entities

Your solution might require copying all the entity-specific rules that are associated with a item or category to be immediately made available on another item or category. This might be needed when a user creates a new item or category by cloning an existing item or category.

Advanced Business Rules solution provides a set of helper APIs in the com.ibm.ccd.solution.wodm.api.WODMAPI interface. A reference to the class that is implemented in this interface can be obtained through the static method getWODMAPIInstance() in the WODMInstanceHelper class.

The WODMAPI interface includes methods copyItemSpecificRules() and copyCategorySpecificRules() that allow your solution to copy the rules that are associated with the source item or category in IBM® WebSphere® Operational Decision Manager, and associate the copied rules with the target item or category.

These methods can be started from your solution code that runs in different contexts (such as the post processing extension point for the catalog) or a custom tool in your solution to allow business users to clone existing items or categories.