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Concepts

Explanation of the concept of each component and terminologies used on Business Rules module.

The Busines Rule module works based on triggered events dispatched by Drupal in a variety of occasions. For each event type, it's possible to attach a series of actions and conditions to be evaluated during the request.

Rule (Event type)

One rule is a type of container that stores the event type to be listening and the items to be processed.

Action Types

The action is a type of item to execute something. Each action has it's particular behavior and may be or not context dependent.

Condition Types

The condition is a type of item to evaluate some expression.

Variable Types

Variables are a type of item that stores temporary values allowing the Actions and Conditions to perform their evaluation using it.

Dependent field

Fields that its list of values is dependent on another field.

Debug block

The debug block allow the site administrator to see all business rule evaluation for each request.

Flowchart diagram

See exactly how the business rule is configured.

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