Designing a Pipeline

Business pipelines are defined in OFS Cloud services to design and execute the sequence of tasks which are either OFS Cloud services tasks or external tasks, to derive a well-defined outcome.

Business Pipeline is used to design a Business Process that consists of a sequence of tasks either internal or external tasks through well-defined interfaces. Using the designer, you can design the entire business flows consisting of various types of tasks or another business pipeline. This flow is defined by using various OFS Cloud services artifacts from the component toolbar and the execution can be defined to be in serial or parallel. Using the Process Modeller, we can Orchestrate a Business pipeline.

To create a Business Pipeline:

1. Click Add Process Pipeline open the Process Details context window, in the Process Modeller window.
2. Enter a unique Process ID, Process Name, and the Description.
3. Select the appropriate App package in which you want to create the process. For more information, see the Application Package section.
4. Select Business Process Pipeline from the Type drop-down list.
5. Select the information domain in which you want to create the Business Pipeline, from the Service ID_Workspace drop-down list. The list displays all the workspaces mapped to the services configured in your OFS Cloud services instance.
6. Click Save & Launch. The Process Flow canvas is displayed.
7. Click Start Process and from the Tools pane in the floating toolbar and click on the drawing canvas where you want to place it. This Start activity indicates the beginning of the Process.
8. Design your Process with various components available in the Process Flow tab.