Use General System services when you want to orchestrate
other background services, manipulate variable data, generate HTML
for a Coach, or perform some other actions that do not require any
integrations or business rules.
Before you begin
To build a General System service, you must be in the
IBM® Process
Designer desktop editor.
General system services are likely to be called
directly from a BPD or from a Human Service. General System services
can include only basic service components, such as scripts, and cannot
contain Coaches or integration steps (Web Service integration, Java
integration, or Content integration). General System services can
be nested within any other type of service.
Procedure
To create a General System service, perform the following
steps.
- Open the Process Designer desktop editor.
- Open a process application in the Designer view.
- Click the plus sign next to Implementation, and then click General System Service.
- In New Service, enter a name for
the service and click Finish. IBM Process
Designer displays the diagram of the service with the default Start Event
and End Event components.
- If you do not want to automatically synchronize
shared business objects that are inputs to this service when the business
object is changed in other instances, in the Overview tab,
clear the Automatically sync shared business objects option.
Important: Nested services inherit the synchronization
behavior of the starting service. In addition, if you have a service
that runs custom logic and then explicitly saves your shared business
objects, always clear the automatic synchronization option. Otherwise,
the shared business object is automatically saved and the code in
your service will not run.