IBM Process Designer

The Process Designer is the primary modeling and designing tool in IBM® Business Automation Workflow. It is an editor that you access in a browser to model, implement, and inspect business processes.

Note: The traditional desktop Process Designer is deprecated.

Use the Process Designer unless you are updating artifacts that you can edit only in the traditional desktop Process Designer. The web editor opens by default when you click the Open in Designer link in Workflow Center to open a process application or a toolkit.

Follow these activities to progressively guide you through creating and connecting the individual pieces to build and test your processes in the Process Designer:

Create processes that contain the activities of business processes. See Creating a process.
Run and debug processes and services in the web Inspector. See .
Create a team and add members to it. See Creating a team.
Integrate services to provide functions for a business process. See Services.
Capture the business data in business objects and variables. See Business objects and variables in Process Designer.
Create the user interfaces for your applications. See Creating user interfaces for business processes.
Enable document support by using Enterprise Content Management (ECM) tools to work with BPM documents and by integrating with ECM systems. See Enabling document support.
Enable tracking of Business Automation Workflow performance data. See Enabling processes for tracking and reporting.

Multiple users can simultaneously access and change process applications and library items in Process Designer. With concurrent editing, you can collaborate with other team members to create the library items that you need for your project. For example, you can communicate about your ideas and edits with instant messaging and see the results in Process Designer as they happen.

Note: Each user must be connected to the same Workflow Center and each user must have write access to the process application or toolkit where the library items are located. When you edit concurrently with other users, ensure that your connection status is good.

You can view the concurrent activity, users who are viewing and editing artifacts, in the current project as you work on it by clicking on the user presence indicator The image shows the user presence indicator in the Process Designer footer. in the bottom-right corner of the web Process Designer window.

When multiple users work on the same library item, you see the following behavior:

You cannot edit a library item that another user is currently editing; you have read-only access to it.
You see the changes of the other users when their edits are saved.