Ontology Functions

Ontology functions are generated by TIBCO BusinessEvents based on the concepts, events, and rules in your project.

There are three types of ontology functions:

Constructors
They allow you to create a simple event or concept instance.
Time events
They allow you to create and schedule a time event. See Working With Time Events.
Rule functions
They allow you to invoke a rule function.

The Ontology Functions area uses the same folder structure as the project (or rather, a subset of that structure).

Various ontology functions appear depending on the project and the add-on products installed:

  • The ontology functions catalog lists all the entity types in a project. Each type has a function for creating an instance of that type.
  • Each rule function also has an ontology function enabling it to be invoked in rules.
  • When TIBCO BusinessEvents Views is used additional ontology functions are available for each entity type. See TIBCO BusinessEvents Views documentatoin for details.