Modelling
ModellingGeneral
- About
- Overview
- Installation
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Eclipse Workbench
- Workflow Editor
- Creating a Model
- Process Entities
- The Model File
- Report Plugin
- Development
Project Information
The Eclipse Workbench
The term "workbench" indicates programming environment of the Eclipse desktop. Through the workbench, seamless tool integration and controlled openness can be achieved by defining a generic paradigm for creation, administration, and navigation of resources. Each workbench window contains one or more perspectives. Perspectives contain views and editors, and control the elements that are displayed in certain menus and symbol bars. Several workbench windows can be opened at the same time.
The Imixs Workflow Modeler integrates seamlessly into the Eclipse Workbench and provides you with all required tools for creating and managing of WorkflowModels.
Imixs Workflow Perspective
Perspectives define the group and the original layout of the views in the workbench window. The Imixs Worklfow perspective provides several functions that are optimized for modeling and working with models.
You can open a new perspective as described below:
1. Click on the "Open perspective" button in the direct-call bar at the left-hand side of the workbench window. (This is similar to the function of menu Window > Open perspective in the menu bar.)
2. Choose option "others" from the drop-down menu to display a complete list of perspectives.
3. Select the IX Workflow perspective.
After opening the perspective, the title bar of the window in which it is contained is changed to display the name of the perspective. Furthermore, an icon is added to the direct-call bar with which you can switch back from other perspectives in the same window.
Normally, a perspective is opened in the same window. If you wish that the perspective be opened in a new window, modify the settings in Window > User settings > Workbench > Perspectives.
Resetting of Perspectives
You can reset the layout of the perspective as follows:
1. Click on Window > User settings.
2. Expand the Workbench and choose the perspectives.
3. Select the perspectives from the list Available perspectives that should be reset to their original layouts.
4. Click on Restore.
5. Click on OK.
The Model Tree View
Views support editors and provide alternative representations or navigations for the information in your workbench. The "WorkflowModel" view is used to display the WorkflowModel (opened in the main editor) in a tree structure.
Views contain two menus. The first one used to access the tab of the view by clicking with the right mouse button allows to edit the view, similarly to the menu assigned to the workbench window.
The Filter Function
The view contains its own menu, the so-called "pull-down menu of the view". Access is performed by clicking on the downward arrow. The pull-down menu of the view contains operations that are applied to the entire contents of the view but not on an individual element displayed in the view. The pull-down of the view contains a filter operation that allows you to hide the environment entries of the model from the model tree.
Displaying the Model View
If you have inadvertently closed the model view, you can redisplay this view by selecting option Window > Display view. A perspective defines which views may be required, and displays them in the submenu Display view. Additional views are available after selecting option Others... at the end of submenu Display view.
Alternatively, you can reset the perspective through menu Window > Reset perspective. The Imixs Workflow Modeler perspective is then redrawn.
Creating and Deleting Entries
Using the two items below the pull-down menu of the view, you can add or remove entries to or from the model tree. Initially, select a ProcessTree or a process and click on the icon to insert a new process or a new activity. Using the icon, you can remove the current element.
