by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 27, 2025 | All, All, Business Rules, Business Rules
The Problem The Stable Marriage Problem is a fairly well known matching algorithm. The premise is that a group of men and an equally numbered group of women both rank their preferred matches. The solution is to create matches between all men and women. Those matches...
by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 26, 2024 | Business Rules, Business Rules, Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Dynamics CRM
A colleague of mine was working with a customer authoring rules using irX for Dynamics® and irAuthor. I’ve taken the liberty of almost entirely fictionalizing the details, this isn’t a verbatim account of our discussion. He wondered, “Are the virtual...
by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 27, 2025 | Business Rules, Business Rules, Patterns & Practices, Patterns & Practices
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 constructs. I highlighted the benefits of using the Execute Member Rule Set over the While Loop. With version 5.0.19,...
by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 27, 2025 | Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Dynamics CRM
I like to use my blog posts to share insights and lessons learned during InRule client projects. The following scenario is another example of something that I keep seeing come up in my work, as well for a lot of customers. The scenario is this: when using software...
by Dustin Oxford | Last updated on Mar 27, 2025 | Business Rules, Business Rules
Gain More Flexibility with Collection Functions Often times we run into trouble when using collection functions with vocabulary expressions. Part of the problem is that when we want to use our named placeholders for the criteria of those expressions, we do not have...
by Peter Fudalej | Last updated on Mar 24, 2025 | Business Rules, Business Rules
Every time I meet a new person and have the regular get-to-know-you conversation, I get the typical questions: Where are you from? What do you do? Where do you work? What do they do? Now, working for InRule, I face an additional question: what is a business rules...
by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 27, 2025 | Business Rules, Business Rules
When I first used irAuthor to solve a business problem (before I worked for InRule), I had not attended any rule authoring training. I received a “sample” Rule Application from a developer so I could use that as a template (I was writing rules that were...
by InRule Team | Last updated on Aug 26, 2024 | Docker, Docker, Windows Containers, Windows Containers
I’ve been interested in learning about the new capabilities and support for Docker and Windows Containers in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update and Windows Server 2016 for a while now. Rather than wait for a customer to ask whether we support these newly...
by InRule Team | Last updated on Mar 27, 2025 | Business Rules, Business Rules, Tips & Tricks, Tips & Tricks, Tools, Tools, XML, XML
Hand-modification of a web.config file is one of the more common post-installation tasks that our customers find themselves performing. Similarly, because I am always setting up and tearing down new environments and servers, I find myself repeatedly needing to perform...
by Renee Wagner | Last updated on Mar 27, 2025 | All, All, Application Management, Application Management, Microsoft, Microsoft
Editor’s Note: As of June 6, 2018 InRule support for .NET Core is now available with the release of InRule 5.1! Read the news release or the blog post for more information! Many of our customers and prospects are showing interest in .NET Core, a general-purpose...
