You create rules to look for events by referencing a topic that enables you to group similar event sources within RulePoint. You can write a rule to look at a single event or multiple events with a single property or multiple properties that relate to a single topic or multiple topics.

RulePoint supports pre-filtering in the topic section, which means that you can provide simple, initial filtering before defining the conditions of the rule. For example, if your business process is to look at three events within five minutes, you can write the topic section to wait for these three events before sending the results to the condition section for further processing. If three or more events do not occur during any five-minute window, RulePoint will not continue to process the rule.

For example, the following rules scan incoming events to identify one stock volume event and two stock share price events:

Rule 1: If you identify one stock volume that is greater than 30,000 for the day, then add the stock to the stock watchlist.
Rule 2: If you identify two stock share prices drop by more than 10% in a five minutes window and the stock is on the stock watchlist, then notify the Fraud Team.