ActiveVOS Designer BPEL for People User’s Guide

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Working in Development Mode or Production Mode

For an overview of this topic, see Rendering the Task Interface into a User Interface.

You can view and update the rendered task details layout in the ActiveVOS Inbox without redeploying the BPEL process or even creating a new instance of the process.

In the Renderings tab of the Task Properties view, you can enable Development Mode for testing your renderings. In this mode, when you deploy the process, the XSL files are read from the file system. This means:

• You can edit the files, refresh the Inbox, and see your results immediately
• The file location is displayed as project-based; however, behind the scenes, the files are treated as file system-based, readily available for editing
• The XSL files are added to the deployment archive
• The XSL files are not cached
• The Task XML tab is automatically added to the Task Details Work Item area. Use this tab to view the source code for the task rendering.

When you enable the Development Mode checkbox, you can test your XSL files as follows:

1. Deploy the process, start it, and sign in to the ActiveVOS Inbox. Sign in as one of the users you specified in the People Activity assignments.
2. In Designer, open the XSL files in an editor and make updates to the files, as desired.
3. Refresh the Inbox Task Details page to see your changes.
4. View the Task XML tab, as desired, to view the source code for the task.

Removing Development Mode and Adding the XSL Files to the Server Repository

When you are done editing the XSL files, you can do the following:

• Disable Development Mode by removing the check mark in the Task Renderings tab
• Leave the XSL file locations as project-based or edit the locations to make them Web-based
• Redeploy the process via a BRPD file or by creating a new PDD and BPR
• Deploy the XSL files using the Resource Deployment feature

You can deploy the XSL files to the ActiveVOS server, or you can point to them on a Web server.

Examples of specifying file locations on the Renderings tab

(Web Server) http://resources.example.com/xsl/simple_loan_taskdetail.xsl

(ActiveVOS repository) project:/loanapprovalsample/simple_loan_taskdetail.xsl

(ActiveVOS repository, where you must map the URN to a URL) urn:/aetask/rendering/xsl/ae_default_param2command.xsl

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