How To Design a Simple WelcomeUsers Business Service

This tutorial demonstrates how to use TIBCO Business Studio™ to rapidly design a simple business service.

When complete, the business service will provide the following:

  • Display a form to collect a user’s name and phone number. For example, the user may be requesting information on a product, or signing up to a service.
  • Call a process that runs a script to generate a message with the name and phone number.
  • Display a form that prompts the recipient of the work item to call the user.

Work through each section in turn to complete the tutorial.

Although it uses a very simple example, this tutorial demonstrates some of the fundamental points of the analysis phase for any business service, for example:

  • Design the process flow.
  • Create and assign the data that the process requires.
  • Create and assign the employees who will participate in the process.
  • Place and describe tasks such as scripts, or services, for the solution designer to implement later.

At the end of this tutorial, you should be familiar with the basic steps to create a process design.

What to do next

The tutorial: How to Implement and Deploy the WelcomeUsers Application demonstrates how to elaborate the design, convert it to an executable model, and then deploy it.

  1. Create a New Project
    A project is the basic container that stores all the artifacts for the business process. The project you create here contains a basic organizational model.
  2. Add a User Task to the Process
    Use the Process Editor to create the business process. It includes a Palette that contains tools to create the process.
  3. Add Data to the Process
    Data inputs for a business process require parameters. User tasks can include data fields to obtain and display data. Script tasks can manipulate data.
  4. Refactor the Start Event and Create a Business Service
    Data inputs for a business process require parameters. A business service sends the parameters to a message start event in the business process.
  5. Define an Organization Model for the Process
    An organization model captures and defines information about the organization of an enterprise. The model represents the different entities in the organization, such as positions, organizational units or groups, their organizational structure and the relationships between them.
  6. Add the Tester Position as a Participant in the Process
    Participants represent the users who perform the work defined by user tasks.
  7. Define the Generate Message Script
    A script task contains a set of instructions, a script, that the ActiveMatrix BPM runtime environment can execute, after process deployment. Scripts are useful for many purposes: to manipulate, calculate or validate data.
  8. Verify the Design Results
    There is a completed tutorial in the samples folder in the product directory. To verify the results of the tutorial, compare it with the completed tutorial.