Building a heritage human service with heritage coaches
Build a heritage human service when you want a step in your business process definition (BPD) to create an interactive task that process participants can perform in a web-based user interface.
Before you begin
To perform this task, you must be in the IBM® Process Designer desktop editor.
About this task
If you add an activity to a non-system lane in a BPD, the activity is initially implemented using the default human service. You can double-click an activity in a non-system lane to open the default human service. By examining the service components and running the default service in the Inspector, you can get an idea of how human services work and how coaches are used to display and collect data from process participants.
The following steps describe how to build a sample heritage human service using example values. The service in the sample enables employees to enter expenses for the Expense Reimbursement BPD. This BPD contains an activity called Enter Expenses and a private variable called request. The request variable is an EmployeeReimbursement business object, which has id(String), type(String), amount(Decimal), and status(String) parameters. See Creating custom business objects in Process Designer for information. For your own implementation, you might not use the same steps or names.