Last year, I spoke at Decision Camp about practices that rapidly orient a new team and get them discovering problems in their project--like a...
Good Beginnings – Achieving Sustainable Automation
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Rule Application Patterns: Vocabulary & Independent Rule Sets
A couple years ago I wrote a blog post that highlighted an excellent irAuthor method which adds a member to a collection of messages in a ruleset...
Naming Patterns
A rose, by any other name, might be a cactus. If you come from a development background, you know that there's an incredible amount of discussion...
Rule Modeling Exercise: Roll Initiative!
Getting started with rule authoring can feel overwhelming at first. To help with this, one of the things I suggest to our users (after they finish...
Ordering the Operations – Execution Patterns in irAuthor®
Beyond the basics of PEMDAS for individual calculations, how does the “order of operations” work in a rule application? Here’s a quick blog post...
Adding Members to Collections: Rule Application Patterns
Introducing Rule Application Patterns This blog post is the first in a series which will highlight common rule authoring patterns of note. The...
No Values: Much Ado About Nothing
In computer terms, what is nothing, and why should you care? Even for rule authors with a development background, a quick review of how InRule...
Merging Rules With… Other Rules?
Introducing the irAuthor Merge Extension What is a merge tool? While InRule is designed to empower business users to author their own rules, there...
Understanding the complexity of testing tools
Testing rules in a rule engine is not quite the same as testing code. Verifying correct behavior and results in simple rule applications can be as...
Patterns & Practices: Current Context and Nested Comparisons
When I first became a rule author, one of the initial challenges I encountered was making nested comparisons that compared one of the fields of one...
Efficiently Iterate Collections with For Each Loops
In a previous post, I reviewed how to solve a common authoring need of iterating a collection, using both the While Loop and Execute Member Rule Set...
Patterns and Practices: Iterating Collections
While struggling with While Loops…I was Saved by Execute Member Rule Set I have a little bit of experience with programming – enough to be...
Using User Defined Functions Felicitously
Like many InRule users, my background is in software development. As a result, I often find myself taking whatever means I can to bypass low-code...
Binding Data schema for improved Data Model Creation
Your rule application is like your house: both benefit from a strong foundation. For rule applications, the entity structure (also called the...
Solving Strange Challenges Using Blackjack
Blackjack, Twenty-One, Pontoon, Vingt-et-Un: it goes by many names, but the concept remains consistent - get 21 points and beat the dealer. A simple...
Patterns and Practices: Entity Variables and Parameters
Often times when we are authoring our rules, we need a data element somewhere else in our schema or data hierarchy. To review, child entities that...
Collection Aggregation Patterns: Mastering Nested Functions
About Rule Application Patterns This blog post is the second in a series which highlight common rule authoring patterns of note. The InRule ROAD...
Patterns & Practices: Data Validation
Data validation is one of the most common uses of business rules. Data validation rules are usually the first rules written when getting started...
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