Chapter 2. New features

The following list provides a summary of the Business Central UI updates:

For more information, see Designing a decision service using guided decision tables and Designing a decision service using spreadsheet decision tables.

Support for expressions, multiple BRL columns, and rule order hit policy is now available when a guided decision table is exported to excel. For more information, see Designing a decision service using guided decision tables.

When typing a FEEL expression in the boxed literal expression editor, you can now see node names appear as suggestions that you can apply to complete the expression if required.

You can now use Metadata Attributes property and manage the generic attributes of a business process. For more information, see Process designer Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN2) reference guide.

You can now perform Security Management actions and update space components using the REST API:

For more information, see Interacting with Red Hat Decision Manager using KIE APIs.

The test scenarios designer in Business Central now supports the enumeration data type in rule-based test scenarios.

The new executable model optimization improves memory consumption at runtime. It rewrites how the lambdas are generated that are used in the executable model. The lambda externalization is enabled by default. To disable the lambda externalization, use the following key:

 -Ddrools.externaliseCanonicalModelLambda=false

For more information, see Decision engine in Red Hat Decision Manager.

The Constraint Streams API is now fully supported.

KIE Server optimization and business process management capabilities are integrated so human tasks that belong to a process can be automatically assigned to users based on continuous schedule optimization planning.

The vehicle route planning starter application includes user interface improvements, server error reporting, and a new run script.

You can now deploy Red Hat Decision Manager on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5.

You can now create and use custom KIE Server images with additional JAR or RPM packages. For more information about creating custom images, see Creating custom images for KIE Server in Deploying a Red Hat Decision Manager environment on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform using Operators.

When configuring Git hooks for Business Central on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.x, you can now configure SSH authentication for access to custom Git repositories. For more information about preparing Git hooks for deployment, see Preparing Git hooks in Deploying a Red Hat Decision Manager environment on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform using Operators.

Red Hat Decision Manager images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform now have labels that enable the use of OpenShift metering. For more information about using metering, see Metering in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform documentation.