Designing Generic Scripts

Scripts may be designed to encapsulate an overall procedure common across different business objects.

For example, BPA scripts may implement a standard procedure to maintain business entities in which the first step obtains the entity's data, the second step presents its associated UI map to the user for update, and the last step updates the entity. Notice that in this case the only difference from one object to another is the data to capture. Rather than designing a dedicated BPA script with static data areas and invocation steps for each business object, you can design a single generic script that dynamically invokes a business object and its associated UI map.

This functionality is available only within an Edit Data step. With this technique, the name of the schema-based object is held in a variable or an XPath schema location and is used to both declare and invoke the object.