Rule projects are based a vocabulary so you must create one, either by building one by hand, or by generating one. This section describes the concepts and purposes of a Corticon.js Vocabulary. You see how to create a Vocabulary from general business concepts and relationships.

For the rule modeler, the Vocabulary terms represent business objects, people, or other items. These could be customers, mortgage applications, purchase orders or any other thing that can automate decisions. Throughout the documentation, these things are referred to as entities, and properties or characteristics of these things are referred to as attributes.

Scope

An important point about a Vocabulary: there does not need to be a one-to-one correlation between terms in the Vocabulary and terms in the enterprise data model. In other words, there may be terms in the data model that are not included in or referenced by rules—such terms do not need be included in the Vocabulary.