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.

Before you begin

To create a dependency on a toolkit, one or more snapshots of that toolkit must exist. If not, the library items within the toolkit are not available for reuse.

About this task

When you create a dependency on a toolkit, you can use the library items from that toolkit for the implementation of your current project. For example, after you create a dependency on a toolkit that includes services, the Designer view automatically makes those services available when you choose the implementation of activities. After you create a toolkit dependency, you can change the version and delete it in the Designer view.

Note: When you change the toolkit snapshot, the service might be affected if the process application and modules reference elements that are not in the new toolkit snapshot. In such cases, you need to add these elements to the new toolkit snapshot, or modify the service.

When you delete a toolkit dependency, you must be sure to update implementations of library items from the toolkit. For example, if a service from the toolkit is the implementation for an activity, the implementation is missing or broken as soon as you remove the toolkit dependency. Missing implementations are marked with alert icons in the properties for the affected activity.

Procedure

To create a dependency on a toolkit:

Make sure that the process application or toolkit you are creating a toolkit dependency is open in the Designer view. If tracks are enabled, the track name is displayed in parentheses after the process application or toolkit.
Click the plus sign next to Toolkits in the library.
From the Add Dependency window, click to select the snapshot of the toolkit that you want. Choose the snapshot that includes the version of the library items that you want to reuse in your current project.

Results

When you expand Toolkits in the library, you see the toolkit snapshot that you added. You can click to expand the toolkit to see the library items within it. From here, you can either change the version of the dependency or delete the toolkit dependency.