People,

   Just a heads up, .brl rules are intended to be simpler rules authored/maintained by business people. While it is a good to have the ability to edit them with the guided editor, they are limited in what they can express.

   Just as one example, as of now, they don't support "from" syntax, meaning you can not use collect/accumulate/entry-point. If you don't use that and a couple other things, its not problem then.

   I wanted to give this heads up so that people is aware before hand to avoid waste time in some cases.

   BTW, it is not that we can't change that in the future. It is just how things are now.

   []s
   Edson

2009/5/20 Steve Ronderos <steve.ronderos@ni.com>

rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org wrote on 05/19/2009 06:40:34 PM:

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> 2009/5/19 Michal Bali <michalbali@gmail.com>:
> > Hi Jon,
> >
> > You could use webdav to connect to Guvnor -
> > http://blog.athico.com/2008/05/accessing-guvnor-as-filesystem-webdav.html.
> > You should then see how Guvnor stores the 'business rules', I think it is an
> > XML file. Then instead of generating DRL file you could generate this XML.
> > You can then upload these files via webdav into Guvnor.
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Michal
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>
> Michal,
>
> I can't thank you enough.  This worked well.
>
> For others, here is a review of what I did.
>
> 1. Created a 'dummy' rule using the guided editor in my target package.
> 2. Used the blog URL above to mount the package webdav share
> 3. Downloaded the 'dummy' rule from the webdav share to act as a template
> 4. Updated my Perl import/export script to create .brl files instead
> of .drl files, using the template.
> 5. Copied the new .brl files created by my utility script to the webdav share.
> 6. Go back to Guvnor GWT and saw/confirmed my rules.
>
> The only snafu I found was that I am unable to populate a category as
> part of the import, but I can have my analysts do that by hand if
> needed.  That apparently is not stored in the .brl, but rather
> somewhere else.   I did confirm that I can update the category in the
> UI after the load.
>
> Again,  Thank you.
>
> Jon
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Jon,

We are currently trying to convert our drl files to brls as well.  Would it be possible to share your perl conversion utility?  We were just about to start creating a similar script, but it would help us out greatly if we could have a look at yours.

Thanks,

Steve

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