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 allows versupports versioning.

Library Usage in Designer

As libraries are developed with the Builder, you need to upload them to the Designer to make them accessible in your services.

In the Designer, you upload your libraries 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. There are two ways to 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.

a library element to see if This is indicated by the Image Removed icon. .

For easier reading of longer documentation, you can click the icon to see the complete documentation in a pop-up window:

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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.