How to Use Business Data

This tutorial shows you how to take business data that you have created in TIBCO Business Studio and use it in a simple business process. It describes how to create fields that reference business objects, assign them to tasks in the process, and automatically generate forms.

You should work through each section in turn to complete the tutorial.

Before you start this tutorial:

  • You can become familiar with TIBCO Business Studio by completing the initial WelcomeUsers tutorials.
  • You should have completed the How to Create Business Data tutorial.

Post Requisite

After completing this tutorial, you can:

  • Install the solution to this Tutorial and compare it with your version. See the instructions in Verifying the Results for how to do this.
  • Optionally, you can assign participants to the user tasks. This is necessary if you want to deploy and run the process.
    1. Install an organization model. You can import the solution to the How to Add Groups, Capabilities and Privileges to an Organization Model tutorial, installing the EasyAsExtendedOMSolution project as described in that tutorial.
    2. Assign a position in the organization model as the participant for each of the user tasks. The Create, Deploy, and Run Your First BPM Application tutorial describes how to do that.
    3. If you wish, you can then deploy the project, as described in the How to Implement and Deploy the Welcome Users Application tutorial for deploying the WelcomeUsers project.
  • Follow on with the other related tutorials.

Use the "For More Information" links in this chapter to explore particular topics in more details.

  1. Opening the Business Object Model
    A project is the basic container that you use to store all the artifacts needed by your business processes, including the business object model.
  2. Defining a Business Process
    In this task you will define the business process that will make use of the business data in your business object model.
  3. Saving the Process
    Save the process you have just created.
  4. Creating and Using a Conditional Script
    In this task you will define how the flow of processing is determined.
  5. Defining Data Fields that Reference Business Objects
    A data field that defines its type by reference to a class in a business object model has sub-fields that represent the attributes of that class.
  6. Assigning the Data Fields to User Tasks
    Once you have defined the data fields, you need to assign them to the appropriate user tasks.
  7. Generating Forms for the User Tasks
    Once you have assigned a data field to a task, you can generate a form for that task. This provides fields in which the user can enter data, or in which data can be displayed. The form automatically contains fields corresponding to each of the sub-fields belonging to the data field assigned to the task.
  8. Verifying the Results of "How to Use Business Data"
    You can verify the results of your tutorial by installing the tutorial from the samples folder in the product directory. Your project must look similar to the sample solution project.