ActiveVOS Designer User’s Guide
Select Window>Preferences>ActiveVOS>Layout to view these preferences.
The Layout preferences page allows you to do the following:
Editing Style and Stylesheets
This panel specifies the default visual properties for new BPEL processes. The default editing style is BPMN for modeling BPEL processes in the Business Process Model and Notation language. BPEL processes visually resemble BPMN diagrams.
Select Classic for legacy ActiveVOS visual representations of activities. See What is ActiveVOS Classic Style?
If you select BPMN for the editing style, you can also set BPMN or BPEL. In this panel, you can set whether you want to use the standard BPMN notation or the BPEL-centric version of BPMN. That is, the icons are mostly standard BPMN, consistent with the palette in older Designer versions.
For details, see Comparing the BPMN-Centric and BPEL-Centric Tool Palettes and Which Edit Style to Choose: BPMN-Centric or BPEL-Centric?.
Under Stylesheets, you can select Other for a stylesheet and edit the stylesheet file in a text editor to change a default value. The change applies to all processes. For example, you can set a border for the receive activity icon. In a given BPEL process, you can remove the border for an individual receive activity, if desired. Note that the Classic stylesheet contains some properties that apply to only one version of BPEL, either WS-BPEL 2.0 or BPEL4WS 1.1. The BPMN stylesheet applies only to WS-BPEL 2.0.
For a description of visual properties, see Setting Visual Properties and Using Your Own Library of Images.
Auto Layout
The main ActiveVOS toolbar contains an Auto Layout button that organizes graphical elements on the process canvas into a grid that best fits the display area.
In this panel, set the default values for laying out the graphical elements (e.g., activities and containers).
Note: The Auto Layout Methods are available as a drop-down from the AutoLayout toolbar button. For details, see ActiveVOS Menus and Toolbars.
Make additional Auto Layout preferences as follows:
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Orientation: Horizontal or vertical |
Select the primary axis for your process diagrams |
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Size of margins for containers |
Set the size, in pixels, for interior margins for scopes, sequences, and other containers |
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Spacing between levels and nodes |
Set the size, in pixels, for vertical (level) and horizontal (node) spacing between activities |
Expand/Collapse Containers
In this panel, set the default values for object movement and link style of the container activities: Sequence, If, While, Pick, Flow, Scope, For Each and Repeat Until. For details, see Showing and Hiding Activities.
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Auto Move |
When a container is collapsed, objects fill in the empty space. When a container is expanded, objects move out of the way. |
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Auto Move Expand |
When a container is expanded, objects move out of the way |
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Auto Layout |
After a container is collapsed or expanded, objects are laid out along an invisible grid |
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No Move |
No objects move when a container is collapsed or expanded |
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Collapsed Link Style |
Sets the solid, dashed or dotted style for links to and from activities within a collapsed container. A style that differs from other link styles provides a visual cue for a hidden activity or container. |
Activity Context Menu
By default, all relevant Eclipse context items are displayed in the right-mouse button menu of an activity on the Process Editor canvas.
To hide these items, remove the checkmark from Show Non-ActiveVOS Context Menu Items.
The items that can be hidden include:
Process Editor Tabs
You can hide the Fault Handlers, Event Handlers, and Source tabs of the Process Editor, if desired.
To hide these items, remove the checkmark from Show tabs other than Process Activities
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