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Object
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Description
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Vocabulary
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Vocabularies contain
one or more business entities. Vocabularies categorize and structure
the entities and terms needed to create a rules database.
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Entity
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An entity is
an object in a business domain. For example, an entity could be Customer,
Transaction, or Account. Entities contain terms. They group terms
into logical units. Entities are not mapped to tables or to table
columns when rules flows are published.
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Term
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A term is an attribute
of an entity. For example, a customer entity might have terms such
as name, address, and income. A transaction entity might contain terms
for date, time, transaction amount, and account number. Terms are
the objects with which you build business rules.
A business rule can
have condition terms and action
terms. Suppose your rule is
if balance>1000
then account="premium". The term balance is
a condition term, and account is an action
term.
Terms are mapped to
table columns by the applications that use published rule flows that
are within metadata.
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