Whether you're using a test, staging, or production environment,
you must deploy external automation services to Business
Automation Navigator so
they can be used by your business application (application) or workflow
automation at run time.
Before you begin
- While logged in to Business
Automation Navigator as
an administrator, ensure that Business
Automation Navigator is
in Platform or Platform and Content mode,
which exposes the available Application
Engine connection.
About this task
Deploying a service that is provided from an external
automation service, follows a similar process to publishing a business
application from Business Automation
Studio.
You export the external automation service from Business Automation
Studio,
and then import the automation service into Business
Automation Navigator.
- Exporting the external automation service
- When you export the external automation service, you export a
version of the external automation service from Business Automation
Studio.
The format for the application export is a compressed ZIP file.
- Importing the external automation service
- To import the external automation service into the Business
Automation Navigator,
set up a working connection to the Application
Engine,
which has the application that depends on the external automation
service package.
Tip: As a best practice, publish your
dependent external automation services before you publish your business
automation.
Procedure
To publish an application:
- Log in to Business Automation
Studio.
- Identify which external automation services are required
for the application or workflow automation at run time. For your business
application, you can check by going to the Business Applications page,
click an application, and select the Automation services tab.
The dependencies are listed under Dependent on services.
- After you identify the dependent external automation
services, go to the Automation page, click External.
- Click the external automation service that you want to
export.
- Locate the external automation service that you want to
export, then click the Export button.
- Log in to Business
Automation Navigator as
an administrator.
- In the Connections page, an Application Service connection
was automatically created for you when the container was deployed.
Select the Application Service connection,
click Edit and Connect,
and log in to the Application
Engine as
an administrator.
After you are connected, the Automation
services tab is enabled, providing a list of automation
services that are published in the Application
Engine.
- From the Automation services tab,
import the external automation service that you exported earlier.
- After the automation service is imported, you can see the
automation service that is displayed as a tile.
The automation
service tile has an overflow menu button, which contains
Preview and
Details.
The
Preview button is where you can preview
and interact with the automation service. The
Details button
is where you can access the overview, versions, environment variables,
and service resources for the external automation service.
Note: The
first version of the automation service that you import is considered
the default version.
What to do next
Now that your automation service is published, you can publish
your application. For more information about publishing applications,
see Publishing applications.