The Library Concept

Using libraries has several advantages for developers:

• You can provide additional data types and operations via libraries.
• You can reuse implementations you have already developed with the Builder.
• You can use libraries for modularization:
  • Implementations can be recycled in various processes via libraries.
    
  • Multiple developers can contribute to the same process implementation by working on different libraries.
• You can add features to the Designer, for example access to backend systems, via libraries.
• You can use different versions of the same library as the library administration supports versioning.

Library Usage in Designer

In the Designer, you can create your own libraries, see page Creating a Library for details. If you want to use the libraries in a Designer service, you have to upload them to a namespace. This is done in the Libraries section of the Designer administration. The uploaded libraries are then available in all services created in this namespace. Since PAS 23.1.1 it is also possible to share a library with all users on your PAS installation. Refer to Sharing Designer Content for details.
How to upload your libraries to the Designer is explained in detail on page Administrating Libraries.

Once a library has been uploaded, you can add it to any service created in this namespace. To do so, open the service, click the Image Added button and use the Asset Drawer to add them or go to the Libraries folder in the Service panel and use its context menu.

The Service Panel

The libraries you have added to a service reside in the Service panel.

Application Options

The panel shows all libraries available in this project. You can use the panel to manage your libraries and to use the contents of the libraries during modeling on the Execution Canvas.

Managing Libraries

Using Library Content

In your own libraries you can define the classes, operations and parameters you want to use during modeling= = == = If show less content in the tree, use the icon Image Removedto close the corresponding element.

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Image Removed	You can drag & drop elements from the library panel to the Execution Canvas. Operations are dropped to the UML action flow on the canvas.
Image Removed	Input and output parameters of the operation are displayed in the library panel and as pins on the execution canvas.
Image Removed	You can drag & drop classes, interfaces and parameters to the fields Persisted and Local: Persisted: The information is persisted and is therefore available in your whole BPMN model. Local: The information is only existing in the current action flow.
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In addition to imported libraries with predefined data types, you can use the provided Base Types, or you can create your own data model.