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FEEL Operators Explained

Although DMN’s expression language FEEL was designed to be business-friendly, it remains intimidating to many.  That has led to the oft-heard charge that “DMN is too hard for business users”.  That’s not true, at least for those willing to learn how to use it.  Although the Microsoft Excel Formula language is actually less business-friendly than FEEL, somehow you never hear that “Excel is too hard for business users.”

One key reason why FEEL is more business-friendly than the Excel Formula language, which they now call Power FX, is its operators.  FEEL has many, and Power FX has very few.  In this post we’ll discuss what operators are, how they simplify the expression syntax, and how DMN boxed expressions make some FEEL operators more easily understood by business users.

It bears repeating that an expression language is not the same as a programming language.  A programming language has statements.  It defines variables, calculates […]

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