There are many reasons for customizing the behavior of 3DEXPERIENCE platform and for each reason a set of tools or mechanism can be used to operate the customization. 

This document provides an overview of customization in 3DEXPERIENCE Platform using business rules, set of dedicated EKL (Enterprise Knowledge Language) API’s, business rules development tools, step-by-step case study with traces collection mechanism and troubleshooting section.

The goal is to make customization by business rules user friendly for beginners and provide useful maps to the official documentation for deeper knowledge. This document is based on 3DEXPERIENCE R2020x level.

Prerequisites and recommendations: The end user must have development skills of scripting language. A fully configured 3DEXPERIENCE Platform is mandatory to execute the use cases.

Target audience: This document is intended for people who are discovering customization using business rules in the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, such as Administrator, Tech Support Engineers, Customers/Partners, and Field Engineers.

In this Best Practice you will learn about:

• Customization Principles
• PLM Customization by Business Rules & Resource Sets
• Introduction to EKL
• Business Rules Development Tools
• Client Side & Server Side Business Rules Use Cases
• Troubleshooting

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