IBM BPM, V8.0.1, All platforms > Authoring services in Integration Designer > Monitoring events > Create custom event definitions > Editing event definitions
Specifying parents for child event definitions in the event definition editor
All event definitions inherit directly or indirectly from a root event definition named WBI.MonitoringEvent. When you create a new event definition in the event definition editor, it is automatically defined as a child of the root event definition. However, if you do not want the root event definition to be the parent of your new event definition, you can specify a different event definition as the parent.
If that if you do not want your event definition to inherit any properties or extended data elements other than those required by the Common Base Event specification, you should ensure that your parent event definition is the WBI.MonitoringEvent root event definition.
To specify a parent for a child event definition:
Procedure
- Beside the Parent field of the child
event definition that you want to specify a parent for, click the Browse
Parent Event icon
. The Select Event Definition window opens.
- In the Select an event to open field, begin typing the name of the parent event definition. The Matching
Events list is automatically updated to show one or more
event definition names that match the characters that you have typed.
The event definitions listed in the Matching Events list all reside in the same project scope as your child event definition.
You cannot select your child event definition as a parent of itself. Similarly, you cannot select a parent that has your child event definition as its parent.
- In the Matching Events list, ensure that the correct parent event definition is selected.
- In the Files list, ensure that the correct event definition file is selected that contains the parent event definition.
- Click Finish. The name of the selected parent event definition is displayed in the Parent field of the child event definition.