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Creating a Practice Process App for Using the Step Palette

In this section, you create a new process app with one application workflow. Then you create the following orchestration workflows in the corresponding sections for each step: CalculateOrchWF, DecisionOrchWF, ForEachOrchWF, WhileOrchWF, and ServiceOrchWF. You use these orchestration workflows to practice using the following steps in the Step Palette: Calculate, Decision, ForEach, While, and Service.

To create the practice process app:

  1. Start SBM Composer.
  2. Click the Composer button, and then click New.
  3. In the Create New Process App dialog box that opens, in the Available Templates pane, click Application Process App, and then click Create.
  4. In the Configure Process App dialog box that opens, in the Process app name and Application name boxes, type StepPaletteProcessApp, and then click OK.

    The new process app appears in App Explorer.

  5. In App Explorer, click the All Items filter.
  6. Click StepPaletteProcessApp.
  7. On the StepPaletteProcessApp tab, change the Logical Name to StepPaletteApp.
  8. Under Application Workflows, click StepPaletteProcessApp.
  9. On the General tab of the Property Editor, change the Name to StepPaletteAppWF, and then press the Tab key.
  10. In the application workflow editor, double-click the name of the New state, type State1, and then press the Tab key.
  11. Double-click the name of the Submit transition, type Calculate, and then press the Tab key.
  12. In the Common Items section of the Workflow Palette, drag an State onto the application workflow editor and drop it to the right of the State1 state.
  13. Change the Name to State2, and then press the Tab key.
  14. In the Common Items section of the Workflow Palette, drag a Transition onto the State1 state, release the mouse button, and then click State2.
  15. Change the Name of the Transition to Decision, and then press the Tab key.
  16. Add three more states and three more transitions. Drop each new state somewhere after the previous state, and name the new states State3, State4, and State5. Name the transitions as follows:
    • Between State2 and State3: ForEach
    • Between State3 and State4: While
    • Between State4 and State5: Service
    Tip: You can drop a state anywhere on the application workflow editor as long as you connect it, using a transition, to the previous state in the workflow.
  17. In App Explorer, click StepPaletteProcessApp.
  18. On the Home tab of the Ribbon, in the New group, click Component, and then select Orchestration.
  19. In the New Orchestration dialog box, type StepPaletteOrch in the Name box, and then click OK.
  20. Save the process app:
    1. On the Quick Access Toolbar, click the Save locally icon.

      A message reminds you that the design elements have been saved to the Local Cache only.

    2. Click OK.
  21. If you closed SBM Composer after saving the process app:
    1. Start SBM Composer.
    2. Click the Composer button, and then click Open.
    3. In the Open Process App dialog box, select StepPaletteProcessApp, and then click Open.
    4. In App Explorer, select the All Items filter.

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