Users Responsabilities on OPA

Hi,
Our user needs to appart the responsabilities for each area in OPA.
For instance:
1. IT Users can create the "rules", like: "Validade the City", "Validate the Hour".
2. The Business Users can decide to use each rule and they can input values for this rules. For instance, users can decide to "Validade The City" and they can include "Cities" in the list of the cities, but they can't edit the "Validate City Rule".
It's possible to be done using only OPA ?
Thanks a lot,

Hi user12255266,
This questions is rather a question of modelling, and the obvious answer is: It depends, as you description raises a lot of open questions.
e.g. How can a Business User decide to use each rule?
I suggest you involve Consulting to support your project with guidance on modelling and approach.
Kind regards,
Darko

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