Business Rules Framework action to create pending inspections

Pending inspections are now created asynchronously using Business Rules Framework. A new Create Pending Inspection action is available on the Permit Updated and Create Pending Inspections and Business License and Create Pending Inspections events, allowing agencies to configure when pending inspections are created instead of relying on hardcoded application logic.

New BRF Action - Create Pending Inspection

New BRF Action - Create Pending Inspection

When a permit or business license application is submitted, the configured Business Rules Framework rule invokes a backend service that determines the appropriate pending inspections and creates them asynchronously, improving submission performance while maintaining existing inspection creation behavior.

Agency staff can manage pending inspection creation more efficiently with configurable business rules:

  • Agency staff can automate pending inspection creation for permit and business license submissions using Business Rules Framework.
  • Agency staff can customize when pending inspections are created without modifying application code.
  • Agency staff benefit from faster application submissions because pending inspections are created asynchronously in the background. 

Business Benefit: This feature improves performance by using Business Rules Framework to create pending inspections. 

Steps to enable and configure

These default rules are delivered enabled for Permits and Business Licenses. Therefore, there is no setup to create pending inspections. These delivered rules do provide improved performance when the pending inspections are created from: 

  • Permit or Business License Application Submitted
  • Permit Renewal
  • Permit Resubmitted
  • Business License moved from outside jurisdiction to inside jurisdiction

Tips and considerations

There is no change to the pending inspection functionality. The Business Rules Framework changes inspection creation to an asynchronous process to improve performance. If these Business Rules Framework rules are disabled, even if the Permit Type or Business License Type pages are configured to create pending inspections, they will not be created unless the Business Rules Framework events are enabled. 

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