Creating BPM documents

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You can create BPM documents by using one of the BPM documents Coach views and by using content integration in a service.

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You can use the following user interfaces to create BPM documents:

One of the BPM documents Coach views: Document List view (if it has been enabled to allow document creation) or the Documents view. For more information, see Configuring views for storing and viewing Enterprise Content Management documents.
The Content Integration node that is available in the human service, Ajax service, and integration service editors. For more information, see Building a service that integrates with an ECM system or a BPM store.

If you use the Content Integration node to create a document, you select the BPM document store as the target server and select the Create document operation. The only required value for this operation is the document name. The object type ID and folder ID are automatically specified because they are mandatory properties when the BPM document store is specified as the target server.

Optionally, you can also provide content and properties:

To provide content, you can use an ECMContentStream variable. For an example of how to create a content stream, see Working with document content.
To provide properties, you can use a list of ECMProperty objects. All properties are optional and will default to a specific value if not specified. For more information about default values, see The IBM_BPM_Document document type. For information about constructing an ECMProperty list, see Working with the IBM_BPM_Document_Properties property.

What to do next

If you want the document to be visible in a local folder, you need to add another Content Integration node where you select the BPM managed store as the server and perform an Add document to folder operation.

Note: Ensure each document has a unique name because two documents with the same name in a folder is not allowed in the embedded document store.

In the data mapping, you pass the document ID that was returned by the Create document operation. For the document server name, you use the ECMServerNames.IBM_BPM_DOCUMENT_STORE constant. For the parent folder ID, you use the identifier of the folder where you want to add the document; for example, the tw.system.currentProcessInstance.processInstanceFolderId expression for the root folder of the process. Optionally, you can provide a reference name if you want the document to appear with a label in the folder that is different than the name of the document.