IBM BPM, V8.0.1, All platforms > Authoring services in Integration Designer > Developing business processes > Building BPEL processes > Create or importing data maps

Reusing a business object map

To put an existing business object map into a business process, follow these instructions.

Procedure

1. In the BPEL process editor, drop a snippet onto the canvas.

2. In to the properties view, select the Details tab.

3. In the visual snippet editor, click the Standard visual snippet activity icon ().

4. In the Add a Standard Visual Snippet window, expand mapping services, click specific mapping, and click OK.

5. In the Business Object Map Selection window, choose a business object map and click OK.

6. Click the visual snippet editor canvas to drop the standard activity onto it.

7. From the visual snippet editor tray, drag Variable onto the top-left connection of the map.
8. Similarly, drag Variable1 onto the middle-left connection.

9. Click the expression activity icon () from the visual editor palette, and click the bottom-left connection of the map.

10. Enter null into the expression.

11. For each of the connections on the right edge of the map, right-click and choose Add > Exception Handler.

Create or importing data maps

Building BPEL processes

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Create or importing data maps

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Create a data map
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