OpenRules Dialog (ORD^™) is a software product built on top of OpenRules BRDMS. It allows non-technical people to develop and maintain web-based questionnaires (dialogs) using only Excel and without a need to learn complex web programming techniques.

A questionnaire is a web application that can be described by a subject matter expert in terms of pages, sections, and different types of questions and answers. Layouts of pages, sections, questions, and complex relationships between them can be expressed in a very natural way using simple and intuitive Excel tables. 

ORD^™ is included in the standard complete OpenRules installation.

The following documents describe the product:

• ORD - Getting Started: describes how to create a basic ORD questionnaire using an online credit card application as an example

• ORD - User Manual: describes the main concepts and provides detailed instructions that help you install and use the product. It includes concrete examples of different web-based questionnaires.

• ORD - Tutorial "Preparing a Tax Return using OpenRules Dialog": describes how to implement a web-based 1040EZ tax form.

Here are the examples of the tables Pages, Sections, and Questions that define a web dialog:



Here are examples of web pages Navagation and Updating rules that control  the interaction process:

ORD is highly customizable and expandable. The business and presentation logic for building complex questionnaires is presented in predefined Excel-based rule templates and layouts available for learning and changes. You may add your own presentation styles, use your colors, new graphical elements, and even JScripts.