TIBCO Business Studio - Analyst Edition Ribbon-Format Controls

TIBCO Business Studio - Analyst Edition 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.

Control Description
The dropdown gives the following choices, most of which are described elsewhere in this document:
  • 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).
New Create a new MAA or open existing projects.

When you click , the dialog appears with the following options:

  • Create new project

    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.

  • Open an existing MAA

    You can open an existing MAA from the location of the last MAA you used, or browse to a location containing the MAA you want to use.

  • Open projects from a folder location

    Browse to a location to open an existing BPM project which has been created using TIBCO Business Studio.

    Note: TIBCO Business Studio - Analyst Edition 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).

  • Open projects from a SVN URL

    The Checkout from SVN dialog allows you to check out projects from an SVN repository.

Open File Opens an existing MAA or model.

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.
Save Saves the BPM projects as an MAA file.

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:

Control Description
Diagram The controls in this group affect the selected model or package.
Edit The controls in this group affect the selected object.
Models The Models group consists of controls to create or edit Process Packages, Business Object Models, and Organizational Model.

See the section about projects, packages, and processes in the TIBCO Business Studio Modeling Guide for more information.

Process Simulation The Process Simulation group consists of controls to simulate processes.

The TIBCO Business Studio Simulation User’s Guide describes using simulation in detail.

Zoom The controls in this group allow you to change the zoom level of the diagrams.

The following table describes the controls available within the group Diagram.

Control Description
Overview Shows the Overview view of the BPM projects.
Rename Renames the selected project, model or package.

The Rename dialog allows you to enter the new name for the selected project, model or package.

Duplicate Creates a copy of the selected model or package and appends the text Copy_ Of_ to the original name.
Import This is a drop-down button with two options:
  • Import Nimbus Process Diagram... Launches the Nimbus Import wizard as described in the section about importing and exporting projects in the TIBCO Business Studio 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 - Analyst Edition export (you select the file to import).
Publish 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.
Print Prints the selected model.
Tip: To delete, select what you want to delete, and then click Delete in the Edit group.

The following table describes the controls available within the group Process Simulation.

Control Description
Enable Opens the process in simulation mode. This will identify any problems in the process with problem markers. You should fix these problems before you attempt a simulation.
Prepare Prepares the process for simulation. You will be warned if there are errors in the process which will prevent simulation.
Run Runs the simulation.
Compare Compares the results of different simulations of the process.

The Help menu provides access to the following:

Control Description
Help Contents Opens the TIBCO Business Studio Help system.
About Opens the About dialog which provides information about the TIBCO Business Studio version, features and plug-ins, and configuration details.
Configuration Details Opens a dialog to provide the configuration details. You can also access the configuration details from Help > About > Configuration Details.
Preferences Opens the Preferences page which captures the user information and preferred settings for the project.