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Creating Rules in BRFplus: Basic Example 9.2
which moves you to the Decision Table screen (Figure 9.25) and then press the
Insert Row button (the leftmost icon under Table Contents).
Figure 9.25 Empty Decision Table
To start off, you only have one row, which has a little icon with a few dots before
it in each cell. You now have two options: Enter the values in each cell individually,
or upload a whole table from Microsoft Excel. The latter is achieved by opening
the Additional Actions dropdown and choosing either Import From Excel
or Export To Excel (you can either upload an Ex cel spreadsheet into your decision
table in BRFplus or download the contents of the table into Excel).
As noted earlier, often the business analyst creates a spreadsheet to store the rules
during the analysis phase, or even receiv es a spreadsheet directly from the business
expert in the first place. In some cases, the process is then as simple as defining
an identical structure in the BRFplu s decision table, uploading the spreadsheet,
and then going back to the expert and saying, “Here is the rule inside SAP.
Does it look like that spreadsheet you gave me ten minutes ago?”
In this case, imagine that you don’t wa nt to upload the spreadsheet you were
given, because it wasn’t a very good representation of the rules; you would have
to have thousands of rows to capture every combination. Instead, click the Insert
Row icon ((the leftmost icon under Table Contents), and in the Sanity column
you have two choices. You could click on the square icon to the right of the dots,
and a context menu would appear, fr om which you would choose the option
Direct Value Input to enter a formula. Alternatively, to save yourself a few button
clicks, just click on the three dots yo u can see in each cell, and then you can
enter a formula without having to choose an option from a menu. In either case,
the screen shown in Figure 9.26 appears.
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