Projects
A project is a set of artifacts that share the same lifecycle and are grouped to solve a particular business problem. You use projects to build, manage, share, and organize these assets. For example, when you manage an application, you create, develop and test your automation, and then publish it so that people can use it to do their work.
Some actions apply at the project level, the version level, or both.
The project types available in IBM Business Automation Studio depend on the IBM Cloud Pak® for Automation capabilities that you have installed, which can include
- application
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A project that digitally transforms your business and helps people do their work by combining automation capabilities and governance. Using Application Designer, you can build applications you then deploy in IBM Business Automation Navigator.
- New in 20.0.3 automation
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Decision, document processing, workflow, or external artifacts that fulfill a business purpose. You can publish some automation artifacts as automation services that you can call and reuse in a consistent way. When published to the catalog, the automation service becomes discoverable across Business Automation Studio to help you drive productivity and customer experiences. For more information, see Automations.
- New in 20.0.2 decision
- An automation that provides decision-modeling capabilities to help business experts capture and automate repeatable decisions. For more information, see IBM Automation Decision Services.
- New in 19.0.3 document processing (formerly called a content service)
- An automation that provides content models to extract and classify data from business documents. Using a cloud-based REST API web service designed to work with the IBM Digital Business Automation platform or any non-IBM content or process systems, Content Analyzer helps you rapidly accelerate extraction and classification of data in your documents – no matter what you are using today. For more information, see IBM Business Automation Content Analyzer.
- Removed in 20.0.3 digital worker
- A project for automating and augmenting job activities with AI so people can maximize their business impact. Digital workers can be integrated within your workforce. For more information, see IBM Automation Digital Worker.
- template
- A project you use as a predefined starting point to create applications, ensuring consistency in
look and feel for a common use, such as document renewal or a workflow dashboard. You must create a
version of the template before others can create an application from it.
New in 20.0.2 Use the following sample templates as a starting point to create automation applications that suit your business needs. These templates use practical scenarios and sample data to illustrate how you can benefit from various Cloud Pak for Automation offerings.
Exception Handling template - Use the Exception Handling template to create a basic refund request application.
Onboarding Application template - Use the Onboarding Application template to create an application that onboards new employees to your organization.
Request Approval template - Use the Request Approval template to create a service desk request.
- toolkit
- A project containing shared artifacts used at authoring time to create applications. To ensure consistency across applications that are used for the same reason, make artifacts available across applications by putting them in a toolkit. Then you make those applications depend on that toolkit so they can use those shared artifacts.