This extensive podcast outlines the core components and best practices for BML (BigMachines Language) within the Oracle CPQ platform, serving as a comprehensive guide for developers. It begins by defining fundamental programming concepts like functions, which execute commands or calculate values using parameters, and variables, which act as placeholders for data that a program can manipulate. The document then categorizes programming types, distinguishing between compiled languages that require a pre-execution conversion by a compiler and interpretive languages processed during runtime. A significant portion details BML syntax, including data types like Float, String, and Boolean, and common statement elements such as semicolons to end statements and return to finalize code execution. Furthermore, it delves into best coding practices emphasizing readability through structural and inline styles, and extensively lists various BML functions across categories like arrays, dates, dictionaries, JSON, mathematical operations, string manipulations, URL access, and XML processing, often providing syntax, parameters, return types, and use cases. The text also explains BMQL (BigMachines Query Language) for database interaction and describes function editor and debugger functionalities, highlighting features like test scripts for debugging and the use of library functions for code organization.

Welcome to this comprehensive podcast on configuring product families in Oracle CPQ. We'll explore the product hierarchy, attributes, and organization techniques that enable efficient product management and customization. This presentation will provide you with the knowledge to structure your products effectively, enhancing your ability to merchandise and navigate through your catalog.

This podcast details configuration rules within a product hierarchy, focusing on how to view rule summaries and utilize price books and arrays within those rules. It explains how to access and interpret rule summaries at various product levels, showing how price books function as variables in rule conditions and actions (e.g., recommendation, constraint, and hiding rules). The podcast also describes how arrays are handled in rules, treating each array index as a separate rule instance, affecting attribute visibility, settings, and constraints differently based on rule type. Finally, podcast provides a step-by-step guide on using array attributes in constraint rules, emphasizing the importance of attribute compatibility and value selection within the rule's action.