What if I told you that one overlooked feature in Flowable could help you automate repetitive decisions, reduce errors, and save up to 10 hours of manual work every week?
That feature is:
🧠 Decision Model and Notation (DMN) — aka the hidden brain of your BPMN workflow.
🧩 What Is DMN?
DMN lets you externalize business logic into decision tables — no more hardcoding rules inside your process models or service tasks.
With a clean spreadsheet-style interface, you can define:
* Approval conditions
* Routing rules
* Risk scoring
* Pricing calculations
* and more...
All in a format business people understand and developers trust.
💡 How DMN Saves You Time
Think of how much time is wasted:
- Updating logic across multiple models
- Manually checking conditions
- Rewriting if-else blocks in Java or scripts
- Explaining rules to non-technical stakeholders
DMN makes your decisions modular, maintainable, and reusable.
🎯 Result:
When rules change — you update the DMN once, and all connected processes benefit.
🔁 Real Example from Our Experience
In our Flowable-based platform, we replaced a set of nested gateways and script tasks with a single DMN table to handle onboarding eligibility.
⚙️ Before:
⏱ 3+ hours/week reviewing and editing gateway logic
⚙️ After:
✅ 0 hours — just updated one DMN file
✅ Business users could validate logic
✅ Deployed without touching BPMN
⚙️ How to Start Using DMN in Flowable
1- Open Flowable Modeler → Create a new Decision Table (DMN)
2- Define your inputs, rules, and outputs
3- Call the DMN using a Business Rule Task in your BPMN model
4- Bind the output to variables for later use
Bonus: You can version and test DMN files just like BPMN models.
🔚 Final Tip
If you’re still putting complex logic in script tasks or gateways — stop!
Let DMN handle decisions, and let your processes stay clean, readable, and scalable.
👉 DMN is not just a technical shortcut — it's a collaboration tool between developers and business teams.
Want to see a quick demo or tutorial of DMN in action? Let’s connect and share ideas!
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