Tutorials and Examples

OpenL Tablets provides a number of preconfigured projects developed for new users who want to learn working with OpenL Tablets quickly.

These projects are organized into following groups:

Tutorials

OpenL Tablets provides a set of the tutorial projects demonstrating basic OpenL Tablets features starting from very simple and following with more advanced projects. Files in the tutorial projects contain detailed comments allowing new users to grasp basic concepts quickly.

The following tutorials are available:

Tutorial Topic
Tutorial 1 Introduction to Decision Tables
Tutorial 2 Introduction to Data Tables
Tutorial 3 More Advanced Decision and Data Tables
Tutorial 4 Introduction to Column Match Tables
Tutorial 5 Introduction to TBasic Tables
Tutorial 6 Introduction to Spreadsheet Tables
Tutorial 7 Introduction to Table Properties
Tutorial 8 Introduction to Smart Rules and Smart Lookup Tables

To create a tutorial project, proceed as follows:

  1. In OpenL Studio, click + New Project New Project button.

    The Create project dialog appears.

  2. Click From template.

  3. Click the Tutorials category.

    The tutorials listed above appear.

  4. Click the required tutorial.

    The Project Name and Comment fields are filled in automatically and can be changed.

    Creating a tutorial project from the Tutorials category

    Creating a tutorial project

  5. Optionally, change the Repository and, for a branch-capable repository, the Branch. Both are filled in with defaults.

  6. Click Create.

    The project appears in the Projects list and is available for usage.

For more information on the other ways to create a project, see OpenL Studio Guide > Creating a Project from Template.

To open the project, in the top line menu, click Editor. It is highly recommended to start from reading Excel files for examples and tutorials which provide clear explanations for every step involved.

Tutorial project listed in the OpenL Studio Editor

Tutorial project in OpenL Studio

Examples

In addition to tutorials, OpenL Tablets provides several example projects that demonstrate how OpenL Tablets can be used in various business domains.

To create an example project, follow the steps described in Tutorials but click the Examples category instead of Tutorials, and select an example to explore. When completed, the example appears in the OpenL Studio Editor.