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Editing business objects

You can edit existing business objects using the business object editor in IBM Integration Designer.

To edit business objects, follow these steps:

Procedure

1. In the editor view, select the business object by clicking on it once.

2. Click the

   to add a field to the business object. If you want to delete a field from a business object, select it and click

   or press the delete key.

3. Once you have added or selected an existing field, you can edit its properties in the Properties view of the editor.

   For example, if you want to specify that a field is mandatory, click the field and then click the Description tab of the Properties view and select the Required check box. If the business object is used in a human task and you later generate a client user interface for the human task, the field that you specified as required will be marked with an asterisk in the client user interface to indicate that it is mandatory and a value must be specified.

4. If you want to change the field type, click once on the type in the business object and a drop-down box of choices opens. Select the type that you want to set it to.

What to do next

Other editing capabilities of the business object editor are:

• You can also edit field and business object names on the canvas by clicking on the name text.

• You can drag resources from the Business Integration view to the canvas of the business object editor to work with them.

• You can reorder field in the business object by selecting the field in the business object and then clicking on the Move field up button

  or on the Move field down button

  .

• It is important to note that a business object has its own properties (name, parent, namespace, documentation, and so on) which can be edited in the properties view as well. Although you can rename business objects and fields directly in the business object editor when they are initially created, once you have built the business objects into an application, you should always use refactoring to ensure that you do not break any dependencies. If you rename using refactoring, all of the dependencies will be automatically updated to use the new name. For more information on refactoring, see the following "Related tasks" links.

• Editing business objects containing XSD wildcards
  There are validation rules implemented in the business object editor to ensure that wildcards are used correctly.

Defining data objects