Configuring Message Filters

This topic describes the procedure to configure message filters for the purpose of business activity monitoring.

When you want to monitor the process and its activities using Process Platform BAM, based on only relevant or specific message map data, you need to configure message filters.

1. From Workspace Documents (Explorer) view, expand <Project> and click (<Business Process Model>) to open an existing business process model.
2. Click the Message Filter tab on the business process model editor. The Message Filter tab view appears displaying the Messages and Message Filters panes. Activities such as Task, Web service, Independent Sub-process, Contract First Development process, Decision Table and Receive Message if any, appear in the pane above Message and Message Filters panes.

   Note:
   ReferMessage Filter Interface for details on the fields on the*Message Filter* tab view.

3. To configure message filters, select an activity in the top pane and do any one of the following:
   • From the Messages pane, select a message element and drag-drop it on to the Message Filters pane.
   • In the Message Filters pane, click and in the row that appears, click under XPath column and select required message element from the XPath Editor and provide a name for it in the Name column of the Message Filters pane.
   • Right-click a message element and select Add All Children to add all the children of this node to the message filter.
     

     Note:
     You can use this option only for a message element that has children nodes.

     All the configured message filters appear in the Message Filters pane by default.

     Note:
     If you want to view the message filters of any specific activity, right-click on the required activity in the top pane and select Message Filters of this activity.

4. Click .

Message filters are configured for the selected process and its activities.