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Customize Business Process Choreographer Explorer or Business Process Archive Explorer

Business Process Choreographer Explorer provides a user interface for administrators to manage BPEL processes and human tasks, and for business users to work with their assigned tasks. Business Process Archive Explorer provides a similar user interface for browsing and deleting instances that have been moved to an archive database.

Because they provide generic interfaces, an administrator might want to customize the interface of a specific Business Process Choreographer Explorer or Business Process Archive Explorer instance to address the business needs of the user groups that are assigned to each instance.

The Business Process Choreographer Explorer reporting functionality is deprecated. To monitor and report on BPEL processes, use IBM Business Monitor.

Because the Business Process Archive Explorer is based on the Business Process Choreographer Explorer, the same customization options apply to both user interfaces.

• Customize the Business Process Choreographer Explorer or Business Process Archive Explorer navigation pane and default login view
  The default client user interface contains a set of predefined views. It also has a default view that is shown after users log in. For Business Process Choreographer Explorer this is the My To-dos view, and for Business Process Archive Explorer it is the Process Instances Administered By Me view. If you have one of the system administrator roles, you can change the views that are shown to your users in the navigation pane, and the default view that they see when they log in.
• Create customized views for Business Process Choreographer Explorer or Business Process Archive Explorer
  Create customized views to extend the set of views that are available to users of a client instance so that the user interface meets the workflow patters of these users.
• Create personalized views for Business Process Choreographer Explorer or Business Process Archive Explorer
  The navigation pane in the default user interface contains a set of links to predefined views and views that are defined by your system administrator. Independent of your roles, you can add your own views to your navigation pane.

  For example, you can add a new view to monitor the progress of a specific task or process. You can specify the information shown, the filter and sort criteria, and also the actions provided in the view.

• Reusing Business Process Choreographer Explorer or Business Process Archive Explorer views
  Customized and personalized views are available only on the instance of Business Process Choreographer Explorer or Business Process Archive Explorer on which they were created. However, you can reuse these views in other client instances by exporting them from the current instance, and then importing them into another instance of Business Process Choreographer Explorer or Business Process Archive Explorer.
• Delete Business Process Choreographer Explorer or Business Process Archive Explorer views
  Over time, views that have been created on an instance of Business Process Choreographer Explorer or Business Process Archive Explorer might no longer be needed.

  For example, when employees leave the company, you might want clean up the database to remove their personalized views.

• Changing the appearance of the default Business Process Choreographer or Business Process Archive Explorer user interface
  Both Business Process Choreographer Explorer and Business Process Archive Explorer have ready-to-use web user interfaces based on JavaServer Pages (JSP) files and JavaServer Faces (JSF) components. A cascading style sheet (CSS) controls how the web interface is rendered.

  You can modify the style sheet to adapt the user interface without writing any new code.

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