Managing and using toolkits

You can create toolkits to enable Process Designer users to share library items across process applications.

Process applications can share library items from one or more toolkits, and toolkits can share library items from other toolkits.

Users who have access to a toolkit can create a dependency on the toolkit and use the library items within it for their process development efforts. See the following sections to learn how to create and maintain toolkits, as well as how to use them during process development.

Before performing any of the following tasks, you should start IBM® Process Designer and open the appropriate view.

Note: To create and import toolkits, you must have access to the Process Center repository.

Editing toolkit settings
Each process application and toolkit created in the Process Center repository includes settings that you can change while working in the Designer, such as global settings, environment variables and server configurations for your process application.
System toolkits
During IBM Business Process Manager installation, a number of system toolkits are imported into the IBM Process Center repository. These system toolkits provide resources that you can use as you build your process applications.
Creating toolkits in the Process Center console
When you create a toolkit, you provide a name, acronym, and optional description of the toolkit. After you create the toolkit, you can open it in the Designer to create library items perform other edits.
Cloning toolkits in the Process Center console
You can create a copy of a toolkit using the Clone option in the Process Center console.
Creating, changing, and deleting a toolkit dependency in the Designer view
You can create a toolkit dependency, change the version of dependency, and delete a toolkit dependency in the Designer view.
Archiving toolkits in the Process Center console
If a toolkit is no longer used, you can archive it. When you archive a toolkit, it no longer appears in the list of toolkits in the Process Center console, and you must restore it before you can open it in the Designer view.
Importing toolkits from the Process Center console
You can import toolkits from other IBM Business Process Manager libraries using the Process Center console.
Exporting toolkits from the Process Center Console
You can export toolkits for use in other libraries from the Process Center console.
Undeploying a toolkit tip on a Process Center server
You can use the Process Center console to undeploy a toolkit tip from the Process Center server. When you undeploy a tip, all advanced content (which is generated in IBM Integration Designer) artifacts and the associated business-level application (BLA) are removed from the server.
Deleting toolkits
If you no longer need a toolkit, you can delete it from the repository. Deleting a toolkit removes all of the files and other artifacts associated with the toolkit. You can delete any toolkit except the system toolkits.

Parent topic: Managing the Process Center repository