Creating projects from Decision Center

You can create a project or in Rule Designer from an existing Decision Center project.

About this task

Business users and developers can collaborate on rule projects by copying the project or a branch of the project from Decision Center to Rule Designer.

You do not need administrator rights on Decision Center to copy a project from it. However, if project security is enforces and you do not have view permissions on certain project elements in Decision Center, Rule Designer does not retrieve them. When possible, connect to Decision Center as an administrator to avoid potential problems.

You cannot copy a project or a branch of a project into an Eclipse workspace that already contains the project. You must copy the project or branch to a different workspace, or delete the project from the target workspace before you copy the project or branch to the workspace.

Note:

Decision services are created in Rule Designer, and then published to Decision Center.

To use a classic rule project from Decision Center in a decision service, you must migrate the project (see Migrating rule projects to decision services).

Procedure

To create a project from an existing Decision Center project:

Click File > New > Project.
In the New Project wizard, select Rule Project from Decision Center, and then click Next.
In the New Rule Project from Decision Center window, complete the URL, User name, Password, and Data source fields with information corresponding to your Decision Center session. By default, Data source is set to jdbc/ilogDataSource:

Note: Use the /teamserver extension in the URL, even if you are using the Business console.
Indicate where you want the copy to be stored on your computer if the location differs from your Eclipse workspace.
Remember that you cannot copy the project or a branch of the project to a workspace that already contains the same project.
Click Connect to establish a connection with Decision Center.
To limit the rule elements that are synchronized, select the Use the specified query to filter rule elements for synchronization check box, and then select a query from the list of queries. If you do not use a query, all the elements are copied.
In Project configuration, use the Remote project list to select the Decision Center project that you want to import.
Click Refresh list if your project is not in the list.
In Select a branch or release, select a branch or release if there is more than one in your project.
In Select a change activity, select a change activity if you want to import an activity from a release.
Click Finish.
The Problems view displays any errors, but the import continues. When the import finishes copying the project to your workspace, you can see the project in the Rule perspective.