About This Book

This book explains how to define business rules that direct business process logic. It contains the following chapters:

• About Business Rules

• Introduction to the Rule Editor

• Creating and Editing Rule Sets

• Debugging Routing Rules

• Utility Functions for Use in Productions

For a detailed outline, see the table of contents.

The following books provide related information:

• Best Practices for Creating Productions describes best practices for organizing and developing productions.

• Developing Productions explains how to perform the development tasks related to creating a production.

• Configuring Productions explains how to perform the configuration tasks related to creating a production.

• Monitoring Productions describes how to monitor InterSystems IRIS®. In particular, see the chapter “Viewing the Business Rule Log.”

If you are using a production to route and transform messages in an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) format such as X12, see the books in the Application Development: Using EDI Documents in Productions set.