IBM BPM, V8.0.1, All platforms > Create processes in IBM Process Designer > Visualizing process data

Visualize tag groups

Select and visualize the tag groups defined for a process.


Procedure

  1. Open a business process definition (BPD) in IBM Process Designer.

  2. Click the Data Visualization button in the upper right corner. Alternatively, click Playback > Visualize Process to view the data visualization diagram.

    The data visualization diagram opens in a new web browser window.

  3. Select Tag Groups from the drop-down list in the selection area on the left side in the browser window. Under Tag Group Value, select the tag group and its values that you want to visualize in the diagram on the right side.

    Tag groups are represented by labels on top of the activities in the diagram. The activities in the selected business process definition (BPD) that have the same tag groups display labels that have the same color. Where an activity is mapped to more than one tag group, the labels that contain the tag groups are displayed stacked on top of each other in a tab.

    A script activity can call a service synchronously from a BPD using the tw.system.executeServiceByName() JavaScript function. To visualize the tag groups defined for such a service, an annotation that includes the service name must be added to the script activity. Add the //@ServiceName annotation followed by the exact name of the service, to the first line of the script activity.

    For example, //@ServiceName "myService", where myService is the exact name of the service.

  4. Click the tab of stacked labels in the diagram to display all the labels on top of the activity.

  5. Click a subprocess within a process in the diagram to visualize that subprocess. Tag groups are specific to the services within a process. If the process and its subprocesses use the tagged service, the tag groups are displayed for both.

  6. Click the Minimize button on the left side to hide the tag groups list and view only the data visualization diagram. Use the zoom in or zoom out bar in the upper right corner to enlarge or reduce the diagram size in the browser window.

Visualizing process data


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Tagging library items