Create a decision rule create-decision-rule

Last update: Thu Dec 18 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Applies to:
Journey Orchestration

CREATED FOR:

Experienced
Developer

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Decision rules are constraints added to a personalized offer and applied to a profile to determine eligibility.

Accept and Content-Type headers accept-and-content-type-headers

The following table shows the valid values which comprise the Content-Type and Accept fields in the request header:

Header name

Value

application/vnd.adobe.platform.xcore.xdm.receipt+json; version=1

Content-Type

application/schema-instance+json; version=1; schema="https://ns.adobe.com/experience/offer-management/eligibility-rule;version=0.3"

API format

POST /{ENDPOINT_PATH}/{CONTAINER_ID}/instances

Parameter

Description

Example

{ENDPOINT_PATH}

The endpoint path for repository APIs.

https://platform.adobe.io/data/core/xcore/

{CONTAINER_ID}

The container where the decision rules are located.

e0bd8463-0913-4ca1-bd84-6309134ca1f6

Request

curl -X POST \
  'https://platform.adobe.io/data/core/xcore/e0bd8463-0913-4ca1-bd84-6309134ca1f6/instances' \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.adobe.platform.xcore.xdm.receipt+json; version=1' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/schema-instance+json; version=1;  schema="https://ns.adobe.com/experience/offer-management/eligibility-rule;version=0.3"' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
-H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
-H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {IMS_ORG}' \
-H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}' \
-d '{
    "xdm:name": "Sales rule",
    "description": "Decisioning rule for sales",
    "xdm:condition": {
        "xdm:type": "PQL",
        "xdm:format": "pql/text",
        "xdm:value": "profile.person.name.firstName.equals(\"Joe\", false)"
    },
    "xdm:definedOn": {
        "profile": {
            "xdm:schema": {
                "$ref": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/context/profile_union",
                "version": "1"
            },
            "xdm:referencePaths": [
                "person.name.firstName"
            ]
        }
    }
}'

Response

A successful response returns information on the newly created decision rule, including its unique instance ID and placement @id. You can use the instance ID in later steps to update or delete your decision rule. You can use your unique decision rule @id in a later tutorial to create personalized offers.

{
    "instanceId": "eaa5af90-13d9-11eb-9472-194dee6dc381",
    "@id": "xcore:eligibility-rule:124e0faf5b8ee89b",
    "repo:etag": 1,
    "repo:createdDate": "2023-10-21T20:13:43.048666Z",
    "repo:lastModifiedDate": "2023-10-21T20:13:43.048666Z",
    "repo:createdBy": "{CREATED_BY}",
    "repo:lastModifiedBy": "{MODIFIED_BY}",
    "repo:createdByClientId": "{CREATED_CLIENT_ID}",
    "repo:lastModifiedByClientId": "{MODIFIED_CLIENT_ID}"
}

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