ActiveVOS Designer User’s Guide

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Using the Participants View

For an overview of this topic, see What are Participants?.

The Participants view is the key starting point for developing a BPEL process. It guides you to provide the key ingredients for a process: the role(s) that the process and partner service(s) play and the interface exposed for each role. Further, once you define an interface, you can drag its operation to the Process Editor canvas to create the appropriate process activities. For example, a receive activity is created from the interface operation associated with a process service consumer.

The following illustration shows the participants and their interfaces.

The Participants view is empty unless a process is open. The view is process-based; that is, it shows participants only for the process in focus.

In this view, you can do the following:

• Create new process and service interfaces. See Creating a New Process Service Consumer Interface and Creating a New Partner Service Interface
• Create new human task participants and their tasks for use in people activities. See Participants and Tasks in ActiveVOS BPEL for People Online Help.
• Drag an operation (or task) to the Process Editor to create appropriate activities. See Creating New Activities from the Participants View.

See also Adding a New Service Operation for a Request or Task Form.

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