How to Build a Business Rules Engine

In the following sections, a number of these reports are discussed. They are also

matched with the design of the Business Rules Repository to make certain that they

can be produced with the design presented in this book. The reports have not been

created in the sample application, but readers with sufficient knowledge of Microsoft

Access may wish to make a try at building some of them.

Rules Reports

These reports are needed to monitor what rules have been defined and the situations

in which they are executed.

Rule Sequence within Business Process Step

This report lists the rules within each business process step to show:

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The rules that are implemented for the business process step

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The sequence in which these rules fire within the business process step ...