EDI Palette Overview

The EDI Palette contains EDI activities for TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ Plug-in for EDI.

One of the key activities in integrating health care systems is to implement the Interface Engine functionality using the TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ Process Engine in the course of defining process models. This process modeling is done in TIBCO Business Studio™ using the EDI activities, as well as the many features that are part of TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™. These include FTP, the file poller, and logging support.

The EDI palette, found on the Palettes panel, includes eight activities.

The following activities are available on your EDI integration project:

Configuring Activities

When an activity has been added to the workspace, the activity can be configured by clicking on the activity icon.

The properties view area below the workspace is populated with fields associated with the activity. Each activity has configuration tabs on the left, and a corresponding configuration input area on the right.

The configuration properties are grouped under tabs such as General, Description, Input, Output, and so on. For example, upon adding a Shuffler activity, you can configure it by specifying the values for the properties under the tabs General, Description, and Input, and view results using Output and Fault.

See Working with Standard Activity Features in the TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ Application Development document for details.

Configuration Using XPath

Input, Output, Advanced, and Fault information is configured and displayed using the XPath Builder. XPath uses path expressions to navigate through XML documents. XPath also has basic manipulation functions for strings, numbers, and Booleans.

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ uses XPath as the language for defining conditions and transformations.

See XPath in the TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ Application Development document for details.