You can change the look and feel of the presentation pages for Start or Activity worksteps in Business Process or Web application. OpenEdge BPM Designer allows you to add multiple presentation types such as Portal, Mobile, GUI, and Tablet to a single activity workstep. This enables you to complete an activity from a browser, a Mobile device, a GUI for .NET application, or a Tablet device.
Note: The presenation types Mobile, GUI, Tablet, and Other are available only for BPM processes.
To define the presentation format:
1. Click the Start or Activity workstep in the process template to display its properties in the Properties view.
2. From the General tab, do one of the following:
Click the ellipsis button beside the Presentation box for an activity in a Web application.
Click the Add button from the Presentation section for an activity in a BPM process.
The Add Presentation dialog box appears.
3. Select the presentation type option from the Type drop-down list. The options are: Portal, Mobile, GUI, Tablet, and Other for BPM process models. For Web applications, the presentation type is selected as Portal in the Type drop-down list and is disabled.
4. Select the presentation format option from the Form Type drop-down list. The options are: Auto-generated, Custom JSP, Flow, and Flow (private) for BPM process models. For Web applications, the options are: Auto-generated and Custom.
Note: The Form Type drop-down is not available when you select the Mobile, GUI, Tablet, or Other from the Type drop-down list.
5. Modify (if required) the presentation name in the Name box. You cannot specify a name for the Auto-generated format.
Alternatively, you can map worksteps (with Custom JSP and Flow presentations) to CHARACTER dataslots to dynamically associate the workstep with a JSP file or a Web application respectively. You need to set the initial value of the CHARACTER dataslot to a Web application (*.BIZSOLO) or a valid JSP file (existing in the <project_name>\jsp folder). This feature is not available for Web applications.
a. From the Form Type drop-down list, select the appropriate option. The available options are Custom JSP, Flow, and Flow (private). The Form Type drop-down is not available for Mobile, GUI, Tablet, or Other as the presentation types.
b. Click the ellipsis button beside the Name or URL text field, then select Use a Dataslot option to display the Add Dataslots dialog box. Select the CHARACTER dataslot to be mapped to the workstep presentation, then click OK to add the dataslot in the Name or URL text field.
6. Click OK to return to the Properties view.
Note: You cannot add the same presentation type twice to one activity workstep. If you do, an error message appears stating that the Presentation Type already exists. Do you want to override?. Click OK to override the presentation type.
For more details regarding each of the presentation formats available for Process Models, refer to Table 39.
Table 39. Presentation Format for BPM project components
Click the ellipsis button beside the Presentation box for an activity in a Web application.
