Selecting Business Process Attributes

This topic describes the procedure to select Attributes for the selected Process and Activity.

You have to select the process or activity attributes of the business process that are crucial for business and which you would like to monitor.

1. Select the required Process Event or Activity Event to select the required Process or Activity Attributes. The Attributes, along with their alias names and Xpath, for the selected Process Event or Activity appear on the right pane. The Standard attributes Process Name or Activity Name and Status appear under Process and Activity start column and Lead Time appears under Process and Activity End column.
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2. If you have selected the Activity Event, then the attributes that you have selected for message filtering while designing a business process model, appear along with the Standard attributes.
   
3. Usage of Standard Attributes: Refer to Usage of Standard Attributes.
   
4. By default, the alias name is same as the name of the Attribute. Change the name of the alias, Alias Name, if required.
   
   
5. Select the required attributes of the Process specific messages from the Process Variable Selection table.
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6. Process specific messages (created through Schema Fragment) element doesn't have a 'type' while modeling a business process model and therefore, by default, type 'string' is added to it at BAM layer. You can change the same in business process model if you wish to have a different type for it.
   
7. Select a Date-time field as Process Monitoring Object attribute to monitor data over a business date range.
   
8. The date-time field that is available as a message map element in Business Process Model flow is referred as business date.
   
   
9. Select the Include contextual information option to get the contextual data from a Web service, if required.
   
10. Click Next to select a Web service to get the Contextual information, as the third step in the creation of a Process Monitoring Object.
    Note: Select this option if you require some contextual data for a process or an activity. In 'Order-to-Cash' process example, at Activity Start of 'Register Order' you have an attribute called ProductID. Assume that you want to increase the monitoring context by including some more details about the Product. You want to add 'ProductName' and 'UnitsInStock' attributes, that are not there as attributes for that activity and are present in existing database (different table) or in some external database, then you can call these attributes using Include contextual information option. These attributes have no role to play in process execution, and you can utilize them to increase the monitoring context.
    
11. Click Next to view the Summary page, if you have not opted for including contextual information. A Summary page appears displaying the Attribute Source (Process or Activity), Attribute's Alias Name and the Data type fields.
    
12. Click Finish to complete the creation of Process Monitoring Object on the Summary page.