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Chapter 1 Getting Started for Analysts : TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts Ribbon-Format Controls

TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts Ribbon-Format Controls
TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts provides controls in the ribbon format. Also, the related commands are organized into groups which are provided in the horizontal bar at the top of the application window.
Following are the controls available at the top left-hand end of the ribbon.
Save As gives you the choice of saving the project/s to MAA... or to an External Folder.
If you are editing an MAA then you have the option to Save As another MAA (make a copy of the current MAA) or Save As External Folder (copy the projects out to the given folder location).
If you are editing projects from a folder location then you can only Save As MAA (create an MAA file for the projects).
Note: Save As will save all the projects to the chosen target (whether it is an MAA or folder) but you will continue to work on the current projects (and will not switch to the Save As location).
The New Project dialog allows you to name the project, and add whichever of the following assets you want to add to the project: Business Process, Business Object Model, Organization Model.
Note: Studio for Analysts import is only supported for BPM projects (any other TIBCO Business Studio artefact can be imported, but will be an empty container and cannot be used).
The Checkout from SVN dialog allows you to check out projects from an SVN repository.
When you click , the Select File to Open dialog appears. You can do one of the following:
Select a .maa file - opens the MAA with the Overview tab as the active tab.
Identify another type of file to open using the dropdown Files of type... (*.bom, *.om, *.xpdl).Navigate to an individual model (or process package) and select it. This opens the selected model in the edit mode.
When you save a new project for the first time, the Save New Project dialog allows you to choose the location of the MAA file. Subsequent changes to the project are saved to the file at the same location.
 
The Home menu provides access to the following groups:
The Models group consists of controls to create or edit Process Packages, Business Object Models, and Organizational Model.
See "Working with Projects, Packages and Processes" in the TIBCO Business Studio Process Modeling Guide for more information.
The Process Simulation group consists of controls to simulate processes.
The TIBCO Business Studio Simulation User’s Guide describes using simulation in detail.
The following table describes the controls available within the group Diagram.
The Rename dialog allows you to enter the new name for the selected project, model or package.
Import Nimbus Process Diagram... Launches the Nimbus Import wizard as described in "Importing and Exporting Projects" in the TIBCO Business Studio Process Modeling Guide. The wizard will ask you to select the target project into which you want to to import the model. The choice of projects will be limited to projects with the "Business Process" asset configured.
To be imported into TIBCO Business Studio, Nimbus Process Diagrams must be exported from the Nimbus Control application using the Simplified XML export format. See the TIBCO Nimbus Control documentation for more details.
Others... Launches an existing TIBCO Business Studio for Analysts export (you select the file to import).
Generates the documentation for all the assets in the BPM projects and saves it in the selected destination folder. If the Open the documentation on completion checkbox is selected, the generated documentation is opened in the default browser.
The following table describes the controls available within the group Process Simulation.
 
 
The Help menu provides access to the following:
Opens the About dialog which provides information about the TIBCO Business Studio version, features and plug-ins, and configuration details.
Opens the Preferences page which captures the user information and preferred settings for the project.
 

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