Creating an import to start a BPD in a stand-alone module

To start a business process definition (BPD) instance from a module, you need an SCA import. Because a stand-alone module is not associated with a process application or toolkit, you must manually create the SCA import and bindings.

To create an import to start or interact with a BPD instance from a stand-alone module, follow these steps:

1. Open the process application or toolkit containing the BPD in the IBM® Integration Designer workspace.
2. Click the module where you want to create the import, and open the Dependency Editor.
3. Add a dependency to the imported process application or toolkit library.
4. Open the module assembly editor.
5. Drag an Import onto the canvas.
6. Add an interface. The interfaces in the library that you added as a dependency are available. Select the interface that you want.
7. Right click Import > Generate Binding > SCA binding.
8. In the Binding tab of the Properties view, enter the following properties:
   1. For Module name, enter a string that is composed of the process application or toolkit acronym, the snapshot acronym, and the static string ProcessApp, separated by dashes (-). For example, PA1-SS1-ProcessApp for a named snapshot and PA1-Tip-ProcessApp for the tip snapshot.
      Note: The acronym of a process application, toolkit or snapshot is in parenthesis beside the name. For example, the acronym of the process application Hiring Sample (HSS) is HSS
      .
   2. For Export name, enter the name of the BPD that you want to call. You can view the available BPDs under the Processes category of the process application or toolkit.
      Restriction: The export name must be URL encoded. For example, replace spaces with plus signs (+).
   For example, if you want to call the BPD Standard HR Open New Position from the Hiring Sample (HSS) process application, snapshot Standard Hiring Sample v8550 (SHSV855), you would enter:
   • Module name: HSS-SHSV855-ProcessApp
   • Export name: Standard+HR+Open+New+Position