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Structure of Business Rules

Business rules let you express your policy statements using predefined business vocabulary that can be interpreted by a computer.

For example, the policy "change customers in the Gold category to the Platinum category when they spend $1,500 or more in a single transaction" can be expressed as a business rule in the following way:

 If
     all of the following conditions are true:
         the customer category is Gold
         the value of the shopping cart is more than $ 1,500
 Then
     change the customer category to Platinum

Although writing and editing rules is intuitive, new users may feel more confident if they familiarize themselves first with the following sections:

Definitions - Used to declare variables that are subsequently used in the rest of the rule.
Conditions - The conditions of a rule.
Actions - The actions to carry out when the conditions of a rule are met.

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