Publishing BPM project to MDS

BPM is a process modeling technique and it requires collaborated effort from developers and business users to achieve an effective process modeling. BPM offers Composer UI for business users to validate and propose any changes to developers, here are simple steps to publish the BPM project to MDS to enable editing through Composer.


1.   In  Jdeveloper Create a Database connection  to the MDS database
    Resource Pallet -> New connection -> database connection



2.       Create new MDS Connection ,  SOA-MDS.

3.     Select partition as obpm

4.Go to View | BPM MDS Navigator, to open the BPM MDS Navigator.

    Open Configure Connection and choose the SOA MDS Connection just defined.

6. Select your project that you want to publish to MDS and select publish to MDS

7 . On the MDS window select –Public -> Create sub folder if needed and press OK.

That’s it the publishing is done.

Now open the composer and you can edit/publish the process

http://bpmserver:port/bpm/composer/faces/composer.jspx

Login using the console admin or the user has admin access.

Open the project and the process you want to edit, it will appear as :

That’s it the composer will allow you to edit and publish simple changes. This can be used by Business analyst or process people for clarifying the BPM requirements.

Cheers !!