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Guvnor User Guide

For users and administrators of Guvnor

by The JBoss Drools team

Version 5.5.0.Beta1

Abstract

This manual provides complete documentation for Guvnor.

1. Introduction
1.1. What is a Business Rules Manager?
1.1.1. When to use Guvnor
1.1.2. Who uses Guvnor
1.2. Features outline
I. User Guide
2. Quick Start Guide
2.1. Quick start guide
2.1.1. Supported browser platforms
2.1.2. Initial configuration
2.1.3. Writing a rule
2.1.4. Finding stuff
2.1.5. Deployment
3. Concepts
3.1. Rules are assets
3.2. Packages are assets
3.3. Perspectives
3.4. The business user perspective
3.4.1. Creating a business user view
4. Authoring Assets
4.1. Version management
4.2. The Asset Editor
4.3. Creating a package
4.3.1. Empty package
4.3.2. Importing DRL packages
4.4. Spring Contexts
4.5. Working Sets
4.5.1. Activating and Using Working Sets
4.6. Business rules with the guided editor
4.6.1. Parts of the Guided Rule Editor
4.6.2. The "WHEN" (left-hand side) of a Rule
4.6.3. The "THEN" (right-hand side) of a Rule
4.6.4. Optional attributes
4.6.5. Pattern/Action toolbar
4.6.6. User driven drop down lists
4.6.7. Augmenting with DSL sentences
4.6.8. A more complex example:
4.7. DSL rules
4.8. Technical rules (DRL)
4.9. Spreadsheet decision tables
4.10. Guided decision tables (web based)
4.10.1. Types of decision table
4.10.2. Main components\concepts
4.10.3. Defining a web based decision table
4.10.4. Rule definition
4.10.5. Audit Log
4.11. Templates of assets/rules
4.11.1. Creating a rule template
4.11.2. Define the template
4.11.3. Defining the template data
4.11.4. Generated DRL
4.12. The Fact Model
4.12.1. Ways to define a Fact Model
4.12.2. Creating a JAR Model
4.12.3. Declarative model
4.13. Functions
4.14. DSL editor
4.15. Rule flows
4.16. BPMN2 Process
4.17. Work Item Definition
4.18. Data enumerations (drop down list configurations)
4.18.1. Advanced enumeration concepts
4.19. Test Scenario
4.19.1. Given Section
4.19.2. Expect Section
4.19.3. Global Section
4.19.4. New Input Section
4.19.5. Audit Log
4.20. File
4.21. Change-Set
4.21.1. Change-Set Editor UI
4.21.2. Adding Packages using a Wizard
4.21.3. Adding Assets using a Wizard
4.22. Services
4.22.1. Configuring Multiple Knowledge Bases
4.22.2. Knowledge Base Configuration Panel
4.22.3. Downloading War & Managing Dependencies
5. Managing Assets
5.1. Navigating and finding rules
5.1.1. Package explorer
5.1.2. Category view
5.1.3. Inbox and comments
5.2. Feed
6. Quality Assurance
6.1. Test scenarios
6.2. Package analysis
6.2.1. Items that the analyser is searching for
7. Packaging
7.1. Packaging
7.2. Imports and Globals
7.2.1. Basic View
7.2.2. Advanced View
7.3. Category rules
7.4. Building
7.5. Selectors
7.5.1. Built-in Selector
7.5.2. Custom Selector
7.6. Snapshots
7.7. Advanced configuration
8. Administrative Functions
8.1. Categories
8.2. Status management
8.3. Archived items
8.4. Event Log
8.5. User permissions
8.6. Import and Export
8.7. Repository Configuration
II. Developer Guide
9. Integrating rules with your applications
9.1. The Knowledge Agent
9.2. REST API
9.2.1. REST
9.2.2. Guvnor REST API
9.2.3. Source code Example
9.3. WebDAV and HTTP
9.3.1. WebDAV
9.3.2. URLs
9.4. Eclipse Guvnor integration
9.4.1. Source Code and Plug-in Details
9.4.2. Functionality Overview
9.4.3. Guvnor Connection Wizard
9.4.4. Guvnor Repository Explorer
9.4.5. Local Copies of Guvnor Files
9.4.6. Actions for Local Guvnor Resources
9.4.7. Importing Guvnor Repository Resources
9.4.8. Guvnor plugin Preferences
10. Embedding Guvnor In Your Application
10.1. Getting Started
10.2. Embedded Editor Entry-Point: StandaloneEditorServlet
10.3. Edition Modes
10.3.1. BRL Edition Mode
10.3.2. Edition of Existing Assets Mode
10.3.3. New Asset Mode
10.4. Extra HTTP parameters
10.4.1. Rule’s Sections Visibility Parameters
10.4.2. Constraining Fact Types
10.4.3. Use existing Working-Sets
10.5. Interacting with the Editor
III. Administration Guide
11. Installation
11.1. Installation step by step
11.2. Supported and recommended platforms
12. Database configuration
12.1. Changing the location of the data store
12.2. Configuring Guvnor to use an external RDBMS
12.3. Searching and indexing, Version storage
13. Switch from JackRabbit to ModeShape
14. Security - Authentication and basic access
14.1. Using your containers security and LDAP
15. Fine grained permissions and security
15.1. Enabling fine grained authorization
16. Data management
16.1. Backups
16.2. Repository Data Migration
16.3. Adding your own logos or styles to Guvnor web GUI
16.4. Import and Export
17. Architecture
17.1. Building from source
17.1.1. Modules
17.1.2. Working with Maven 2
17.1.3. Working with GWT
17.1.4. Debugging, Editing and running with Eclipse
17.2. Re-usable components
17.3. Versioning and Storage
17.4. Contributing