Selecting Contextual Information

This topic describes the process of selecting Web service to get the contextual information.

You have to select contextual information to correlate the process data with external attributes from a Web service for increasing the context of the monitoring.

1. Click the required Process or Activity Event on the left pane. Options to select the Web service for including the Contextual information appear.
2. Click to select the required Web service. The Select Web Service dialog box appears with a list of available Web services.
3. Select a relevant Web service and click OK. The key field for the selected Web service appears under the Input Parameters column.
4. Highlight the parameter under the Input Parameters column and click the text field corresponding to the parameter under the Parameter Mapping column to view the drop-down. The parameter drop-down appears with the attributes list under the Parameter Mapping column.
5. Select the required attribute you want to map.
6. Select the required parameter under the Output Parameters column.
7. Click the highlighted text field and rename the alias name, under the Alias Name column, if required.
8. Click Save to save the information entered.
9. Click Reset to clear or change the information already entered.
10. Click Next to view the Summary page. The Summary page opens displaying the Attribute Source (Process or Activity), Attribute's Alias Name and the Data type fields.
11. Click Finish to complete the creation of Process Monitoring Object on the Summary page.

The Process Monitoring Object is created and added to the project content tree.

• The newly created Process Monitoring Object can be consumed in the Business Measure Editor to define a Business Measure. Using the set of attributes of a Process Monitoring Object in a Measure, an aspect of process can be measured by building aggregate queries on the attributes.
• If you choose an Intermediate Message (IM) immediately after choosing a Web service activity, do not select Include contextual information option because if you choose an Intermediate Message immediately after choosing a Web service activity, the response of the Web service is available within no time. The IM is completed within no time. If any contextual information is called in the IM's start event, the IM start event is not fetched because the Business Process Management engine does not fire any start event of the IM.