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| <a id="XE_ruleflow" name="XE_ruleflow"><span
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| graph composed of</span></a> <a id="5051" name="5051">rule tasks nodes and decision nodes, which is used to control and
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| order the execution of rule artifacts.&nbsp;</a><span
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| can be created graphically using the Ruleflow Editor.</span>
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| ruleflow can be seen as a business process, but it is not a complete one. When designing a business process type of
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| application is quite often that some sub flow of the business process model will be mapped to a ruleflow. But a rule
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| flow is for the execution logic of the rule set not of a process.</span>
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