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For example, if a task is selected, the Create Connection gadget is visible to the lower right of the task:
•Cycle Object Type Gadget Change the activity type by cycling through the different types.
•Create Connection Gadget Create sequence flows to existing object or create and connect to new object.
•Link Event Gadget Designate a throw and catch link event pair.
•Signal Event Gadget Designate a throw and catch signal event pair.
•Reply Activity Gadget Specify a request - reply relationship (with throw and catch message events or send and receive tasks).
•Reference Task Gadget Select the task that the current task will reference.
You can control the display of gadgets using the toolbar tool, or the Show Click/Drag Gadgets drop-down list from the Diagram toolbar:To add an object, click the Create Connection gadget, and drag and drop it in a lane content area or embedded sub-process content area.
When you first start TIBCO Business Studio, if the palette is not visible, expand it by clicking the Show Palette button to the right of the window:
• You can customize certain palette preferences by selecting Customize from the right-click menu on the palette. This allows you to define preferences such as the default tool drawer states on editor startup. There is also a Favorites drawer that you can customize (see Customizing Palette Favorites).
You can connect objects in the process by creating a sequence flow using the Create Connection gadget, but a similar procedure applies to all connection types:
2. Drag the Create Connection gadget to connect to another object. For example:In this example, there is a Create Connection gadget for each outgoing sequence flow. Clicking a gadget selects the referenced or connected object in the Process Editor (for example, clicking the gadget attached to a reference task selects the referenced task).To connect two objects with sequence flow, use the Sequence Flow tool.
1. Click the Sequence Flow tool.
When you connect objects, as the default the sequence flows use Multi Entry/Exit Point connection routing (meaning that there will be multiple separate lines from the entry or exit point to those objects they are connected to. You can tailor this behavior, by selecting the process, and from the Properties tab, select the Appearance tab. You can then select from the following connection routing styles:
• Using the Select tool on the palette. Hold down the Ctrl to add single objects to the selection or Shift keys to select a range of objects.
• Using the Marquee tool. This allows you to drag a rectangle around all the objects that you want to select.To find an object on a process, press Ctrl+F or click theicon on the toolbar. In the resulting dialog enter the name or partial name of the object you are looking for. For example:
In this example the only task that starts with "c" is a script task called coreLogic. Clicking on the task displays it in the Process Editor.You can also use the search facility to locate workspace elements such as processes, package names, and process interfaces by pressing Ctrl+F or the search toolbar button in the Project Explorer view. For example:You can also use the search facility to locate a business object model package, class, primitive types and enumerations, as well as organization models, by pressing Ctrl+F or the search toolbar button in the Project Explorer view.You can also search for items using the first characters from the start of each capitalized word (CamelCase searching). For example, "BP" returns a file called BankPayment.wsdl.The wildcard ? returns all elements. Use the * wildcard to restrict the results (for example, *2 to return all matches ending in 2). Note that the wildcard * by itself does not return any results; it only works in conjunction with a string.The palette contains a drawer labelled Favorites that contains some of the most commonly used objects., which you can customize by adding or removing objects.
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3. Select an object and use the Hide check box to display or hide the object in the favorites drawer:
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