The Intellirule Editor is the environment in which you create new rules or edit existing ones. The following figure shows a rule displayed in the Intellirule Editor:

Rule statements appear as complete phrases because they use a natural-language approach, but when constructing or editing them you see that they are made up of combinations of modifiable building blocks, which represent business terms, operators, and values. In the figure you can see that:

In the following rule statement the building block the current load is a business term, is more than is an arithmetic operator, and 5000 is a value:

If you have more than one rule in a document, you can drag and drop a rule header to move a rule up or down in the editor. You can also drag and drop a rule to the toolbox if you want to reuse it later on.

The rest of this section describes how to do specific tasks in the Intellirule Editor.

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