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We'll create a more complex decision rule that uses a combination of static cases and dynamic ones through action tables. This rule will accept a product name, and return back it's cost and price. 

1. Open Application Studio of your solution
2. From the left menu, select Business Rules -> Rules
3. Click on New Rule. The New Rule page displays.

4. Enter the specific rule properties as follows. To read about the other properties, review the Rules help:

   Property	Value	Description
   Rule Name	DecisionRule_ActionTable	You can choose any meaningful name you like.
   Rule Usage	Empty	This rule usage provides the necessary input and output parameters necessary for a rule's purpose. Select the Empty Rule Usage for this example.
   Rule Type	Decision	This type of rule is meant will launch a special Decision Builder after you save the rule.

5. Click Save. The Rule's detail page is displayed.
6. Click on the Parameters tab.

7. Click Add and create the following Parameters:

   Name	Type	Default	Behavior	Length
   ProductName	Text		Input
   Cost	Number		Output
   Price	Number		Output

    Make sure to keep the Default and Length values empty.

8. Click on the Decision Rules tab.
9. Click on the New Rule button. A new case row appears.
10. Click on the Edit button in the Predicate column of the new case. The Predicate Editor window pops up.

11. Enter the predicate properties as follows:

    Property	Value	Description
    Expression Type	SQL Non Query	There are three options available, we'll do SQL Non Query for this example and then later discuss the other options.
    SQL Body	BEGIN :Result := 0; IF :ProductName = 'Dog' THEN :Result := 1; END IF; END;	In this Predicate we check if ProductName is Apples, if it is then we set the system parameter Result to 1 indicating that this is the case we want to evaluate.

12. Click Save
13. Click on the Edit button in the Cost column of the case. The Condition Value Editor window pops up.

14. Enter the condition value properties as follows:

    Property	Value
    Expression Type	Constant
    Value	100

15. Click Save
16. Click on the Edit button in the Price column of the case. The Condition Value Editor window pops up.

17. Enter the condition value properties as follows:

    Property	Value
    Expression Type	Constant
    Value	100

18. Click Save

19. Next we need to create a Business Object that will hold dynamic cases.

    
    
    1. From the left menu, select Data Management -> Busines Objects

    2. Click on the New Business Object button. The New Business Object page appears.

       Property	Value	Description
       Object Name	ProductAction	Use this name for the example.
       Template	System -> Action Table	This template creates the required attributes to work with the Decision Rule.

    3. Click Save.
    4. The detail page of this Business Object appear. Click on the Attributes tab.

    5. Add the following Attributes:

       Name	Type
       CostBody	TextArea
       CostType	Integer
       PriceBody	TextArea

20. Deploy
21. Go back to the detail page of the Decision Rule, if you didn't close anything it would be the tab named Rule - DecisionRule_ActionTable on the top of the screen.
22. Click on the New Rule button. A new case row appears.
23. Click on the Edit button in the Predicate column of the new case. The Predicate Editor window pops up.

24. Enter the predicate properties as follows:

    Property	Value
    Expression Type	Reference Table
    Table Name	ProductAction
    Predicate	Condition
    Predicate - Type	Attribute -> ConditionType
    Sort	Id
    Sort - Type	Ascending
    Cost	CostBody
    Cost - Type	Attribute -> CostType
    Price	PriceBody
    Price - Type	Type -> Constant

25. Click Save
26. Click on the General tab of the Decision Rule's detail page.
27. Click on the Debug button in the toolbar. The Rule Debugger window pops up.
28. In the Assign Values grid set the ProductName's value to Dog.

29. Click the Run button on the bottom left. Scroll down to the Rule Result text area and you should see the following result: 

    Code Block
    language javascript
    {"DATA":{"root_DecisionRule_Products":{"RETVAL":"1","COST":"100","PRICE":"100"}}}

30. Next we need to populate some values into the ProductAction table and test it out. From the left menu, select Business Rules -> Rules
31. Click on the Open Rule Generator button. The Rule Generator pop up shows up.
32. Select Create object for the Type.
33. Click Next
34. Select the ProductAction for the Business Object.
35. Checkbox the following Attributes and move them to the right: Condition, ConditionType, CostBody, CostType and PriceBody
36. Click Finish
37. Click on the Debug button in the toolbar next to the newly created rule. The Rule Debugger window pops up.

38. Enter the Parameter properties as follows:

    Parameter	Value
    Condition	BEGIN :Result := 0; IF :ProductName = 'Watermelons' THEN :Result := 1; END IF; END;
    ConditionType	3
    CostBody	9
    CostType	1
    PriceBody	11

39. Click Run

40. Change the Parameter properties as follows:

    Parameter	Value
    Condition	BEGIN :Result := 0; IF :ProductName = 'Cat' THEN :Result := 1; END IF; END;
    ConditionType	3
    CostBody	BEGIN :Result := 60 * 0.75; END;
    CostType	3
    PriceBody	60

41. Click the Run button on the bottom left.

42. After the rule was execute, close the Rule Debugger.

43. Go back to the detail page of the Decision Rule, if you didn't close anything it would be the tab named Rule - DecisionRule_ActionTable on the top of the screen.

44. lick on the General tab of the Decision Rule's detail page.
45. Click on the Debug button in the toolbar. The Rule Debugger window pops up.
46. In the Assign Values grid set the ProductName's value to Cat.

47. Click the Run button on the bottom left. Scroll down to the Rule Result text area and you should see the following result: 

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    {"DATA":{"root_DecisionRule_Products":{"RETVAL":"1","COST":"45","PRICE":"60"}}}