Setting the Properties of a Business Process Model

This topic describes the procedure to set the properties of a business process model.

When designing a business process model, set its properties in line with your business needs. This helps you to achieve intended orchestration at the time of executing your business process.

1. To set the properties for your business process model, click (Business Process Model) in the Workspace Documents (Explorer) view <Project>.
2. Right-click the business process model whose properties you want to set and select Properties. Alternatively, double-click in the business process modeler or press the keyboard short cut F8 to view the properties. The Properties - Business Process Model - <Description> pane appears. Refer to Business Process Model Properties Interface for more information on the fields on the Properties - Business Process Model pane.
3. Click the General tab to configure execution priority, execution mode, business calendar, enable crash recovery or create a contract.
4. Click the Business Identifiers tab to add business identifiers for the business process model. Adding business identifiers helps you to identify process in the Process Instance Manager pages during runtime. This is especially useful when you have more number of processes running simultaneously, processes with similar names and when there are multiple processes running in a single project.
5. Click the Monitoring tab to configure monitoring settings for the process. Doing this gives you the advantage of monitoring your business process during runtime and helps to quickly track the status of the business process and identify the problem areas.
6. Click the Attachments tab to define the type of documents that can be handled by the process.
7. Click the KPI tab to add KPIs to the business process models. KPIs will allow users to monitor process related information and trigger business actions and outbound events as specified.
8. Click the Namespaces tab to check the various prefixes and their namespaces defined in the business process model. Namespaces are a set of rules that determine how network resources are named and identified.
9. Click the Annotation tab to provide additional or specific notes or comments on the business process model which you would like to use long after you have designed the business process.

The properties of the business process model are set to achieve intended orchestration.