Prerequisites
Make sure that Adeptia Server activities must be created before attaching them with BPMN elements in the process flow.
Steps to attach Adeptia Server activities with BPMN elements
Expand Repository View panel. All the items in the Server Entities category are displayed.
Further expand the type of activities - Human Workflow, Schema, Source, etc. until you find the required activity.
- Select the required activity, drag it to the Graph Canvas and drop it on the BPMN element with which you want to attach the activity. A small image of the activity is displayed at the top left corner of the BPMN element.
Info An activity can also be attached by right-clicking the BPMN element. Right-click BPMN element and select Attach Server Entity. List of activities is displayed. Select the required activity and click Ok button.
You can change the label of the element, if required. If you attach an activity to a blank BPMN element, then the activity name is displayed in the BPMN element (see Figure 78).
Repeat step 1 to 3 to attach activities to other BPMN elements.
To view or edit the properties of the Adeptia Server activity attached with the BPMN elements, right-click the activity and then select View Properties. The properties of the attached activity are displayed in the Properties Panel.
Info If mapping is used in a process flow, following things must be checked:
Right-click source schema activity and select View Properties. Transformer property must be Stream 2XMLStream.
Right-click target schema activity and select View Properties. Transformer property must be XMLStream2Stream.
For details on Transformer types and changing from one type to another, refer to the section Changing Transformer Type.
- By default. activities are Synchronous. If you want to make the activity asynchronous, go to the Properties Panel, change the value of Synch from true to false.
- Click the File menu and then select the Save to Adeptia Server, to save the process flow on the Adeptia Server. This displays a screen confirming that the process flow has been created successfully.
Save Process Flow on Local Hard Disk
Steps to save the Process Flow on local hard disk
- Select Save Process Flow Locally from the File menu. The Save window is displayed.
Enter the name of the file in the File Name field and click the Save button. The process flow is saved in XML format in the specified location.
Info To create a Process flow, an IT user can simply drag the required Adeptia Server activities to the Graph Canvas and connect them using flow controls. In other words, an IT user does not need to draw process flow using BPMN elements and then attach Adeptia Server activities to the BPMN elements.
Info You can view details of an event associated with a process flow, by clicking the event displayed under Associated Events on the Manage Process Flow screen.
Info Changing Transformer Type
In the Adeptia Server two types of transformers are used:
- Stream2XMLStream/XMLStream2stream: This transformer converts the source data to XML (i.e. Stream2XMLStream) and then the XML to target data (i.e. XMLStream2Stream). This transformer is used when a mapping activity is used in the process flow. In this case, the Stream2XMLStream is used in the source schema and the XMLStream2stream is used in the target schema.
- SchemaStream2Record/SchemaRecord2Stream: This transformer converts the source data to intermediate format (i.e. SchemaStream2Record) and then the intermediate format to target data (i.e. SchemaRecord2Stream). This transformer is used when record to record process of the data is required.
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Right-click the schema activity in the Graph Canvas Area, and select View Properties. Properties of the selected schema activity are shown in the Properties Panel.
- Select the required transformer type (e.g. Stream2XMLStream in case of source schema and XMLStream2Stream in case of target schema) from the dropdown list Transformer.
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