Invoking the accelerators in Business Modeler
After successful installation of the accelerators, restart Business
Modeler and verify that the accelerators are available in your
modeling environment. Apply the 4-pane Layout such that you can see
the project tree view in the upper left, the drawing palette and
canvas in the upper right, the Outline view in the lower left, and the
Attributes view in the lower right.
Import the HiringExample.mar file into Business Modeler, into a project
that you name HR Processes. For example,
if you have
unzipped the downloaded accelerator.zip
into your C:\temp\acceleratorUpdatesite
directory, you can find the HiringExample.mar file in the example subdirectory in the acceleratorUpdatesite directory. In the project
tree view, you should see the content shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4. The project
tree
Select a process catalog or one of the processes in the project tree.
Click right the process to invoke the pull-down menu. You should see a
new entry Control-Flow Analysis at the bottom of this menu.
Figure 5. Starting
control-flow analysis
Open one of the business process models. The process will open on your
drawing canvas. Make sure that you are viewing the process in
Free-Form Layout.
Click right anywhere in the white space of your drawing canvas and
invoke the pull-down menu. At the bottom of this menu, you should see
Control-Flow Analysis, followed by the Pattern,
Transform, and Refactor submenus.
Figure 6. Menu items for
accelerators
The Control-Flow Analysis is available to you in Free-Form Layout and
in Swimlane Layout; the patterns, transformations, and refactorings
are only available in Free-Form Layout.
Select Window > Show View > Other …. In the
Show View window that opens, expand the Business Modeler
Views folder. Select the Accelerators Palette and click
OK.
Figure 7. Activating the
Accelerators Palette view
A palette with icons for all accelerators is added to your attributes
view at the bottom of Business Modeler. You can see a description of
each icon when you hover the mouse over the icon. By clicking on an
icon, you can invoke an accelerator.
You can also detach the palette from the view or attach it elsewhere in
Business Modeler. Furthermore, the palette names and entries can be
configured. Part 2 of this series describes how to detach and
configure the palette.
Figure 8. The Accelerators
Palette icons
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