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Creating new processes

Create a process to represent the business process that you are automating. When you create a process, you must specify a unique name and associate it with an existing category. Optionally, you can provide descriptive text and an image that will be used with your process. For example, the image you specify will be displayed in the process cards within LiveCycle Workspace ES. The image formats supported are JPG and PNG.

Tip:   It is recommended that you reduce your image to 150 x 150 pixels. You can compress the image without losing quality before you add it to your process using tools such as Adobe ImageReady®. This will optimize the image for use in LiveCycle ES to improve load times and to maximize user experiences. You need to always verify that the images are displayed correctly.

When you create your process, you must associate it with an existing or new category. You can also modify the category that the process is associated with any time after the process is created.

Caution:   After a process is created, the name for that process cannot be changed.

Note:   A newly created process version remains locked after you close it. You must unlock the process version to allow others to modify it.

To create a process:

1. Select File > New > Process.
2. In the Select an Option for Creating Your Process area, select Create A New Process, and then click Next.
3. In the Name box, type a name for the process.
4. If a category already exists, select it from the Category list; otherwise, click New and provide the information in the New Process Category dialog box that appears:
   • In the Name box, type a name for the category.
   • In the Description box, type a description for the category, and then click Finish.
5. (Optional) In the Description box, type a description for the process.
6. (Optional) To associate an image with the process, click Browse, navigate to and select an image file, and then click Open.

   Note:   You can use only JPEG or PNG image files. Images greater than 150 x 150 pixels will be scaled. As a result, images appear distorted.

7. (Optional) To disassociate an image from the process, click Reset To Default.
8. Click Next.
9. (Optional) In the Type list, select one of these options :

   long-lived: Specifies to store information about process instances in the database.

   short-lived: Specifies to not store any information about process instances in the database.

   For more information, see Short-lived processes and long-lived processes.

10. (Optional) Select Auto Generate BAM Dashboards to specify that the process is available for monitoring using LiveCycle Business Activity Monitoring Basic.
11. (Optional) In the Propagation list, select one of the following propagation contexts to specify how a transaction context is to be propagated:

    Note:   The Transaction Propagation list is available only when you select short-lived in step 9.

    MANDATORY: Supports a transaction context if one already exists. An exception occurs if a transaction context does not exist.

    NEVER: Always executes without a transaction context. An exception occurs if an active transaction context exists.

    NOT SUPPORTED: Does not support execution with an active transaction context. Always executes without a transaction context. If an active transaction context exists, it is suspended.

    REQUIRED: Supports a transaction context if one already exists; otherwise, a new transaction context is created.

    REQUIRES NEW: Always creates a new transaction context. If an active transaction context exists, it is suspended. This value is the default.

    SUPPORTS: Supports a transaction context if one already exists; otherwise, executes without a transaction context.

12. (Optional) In the Timeout area, which is only available when you select short-lived in step 9, select one of these time-out options:

    Default: Specifies to use the application server's transaction time-out setting.

    Number Of Seconds: Specifies to wait the number of seconds specified before rolling back a transaction.

13. (Optional) To add a new registered prefix to a namespace URI, perform these tasks (see Setting up templates for event data and messages):
    • In the Registered Prefixes For Namespaces Used In XPaths area, click Add A List Entry .
    • In the Prefix column, select [Prefix] and type a prefix.
    • In the NamespaceURI column, select [Namespace] and type the name of the namespace URI.
14. (Optional) To remove an existing registered prefix assigned to a namespace URI, select the prefix and click Delete Selected List Entry .
15. Click Finish.

See also

Processes

Creating and deleting categories

Deleting processes and process versions

Adobe LiveCycle ES Update 1

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