Exception Handling in Savvion BPM

Exception handling is very important and critical part of any application and necessary for applications which have a large number of third party integrations too. There is always a question how to handle exceptions in savvion or how to handle exceptions in BPM product.

Savvion Clients

Below are the companies which uses Savvion.

Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) is a software that helps in monitoring business activities, since those activities are implemented in computer system applications. Business Activity can be a business process designed by Business Process Management (BPM).

Showing Instructions data on web portal form using BPM Savvion Process Modeler

Savvion portal form has 'Instructions' tab which is used to display instructions data to the business users for giving them the actual instructions on the workstep form that needs to be filled or approved. This allows the business users to have detail instructions on what the form is and what needs to be done by them.

Simple way of attaching files in Savvion Workflow

Savvion BPM provides a very simple way to attach file in your application flow instead of writing your own java code to select a file for attachment and upload it to the server. You can just place your dataslot in the form editor which will take care of rest of the things. It will do all the processing such as providing a button to select the file as well as uploading the selected file to the server location.

Adding Web Service to Savvion Adapter

Web Service is very vital for any organization. Savvion provides Web Service Adapter to add and use a web service in a very easy way.

Here is how to add it to your protess template.

Why Process Template Versioning is required?

Process Template Versioning is a feature provided by Savvion to install a new version of an existing process template which is already installed.

Add custom javascript validation file in form editor

You may have wonder how and where to include a javascript validation file to the form editor. This is bit tricky specially if you are using savvion 7.5 form editor which auto generates your jsp file. You can though modify your generated jsp to manually include the javascript file but it is not recommended to update the jsp file which is generated using form editor.

What is a Savvion Dataslot?

A Dataslot as the name suggests is a storage location used to store valuable information required in the process flow. It is a container that stores a meaningful value that can be used throughout the process instance life cycle.

Adding custom JSP to the workstep

Do you need your jsp to be custom created by you instead of default form type? The 'Presentation' property of the activity allows you to specify the presentation of your workstep to be custom instead of a Form.

Questions on Savvion?

You can now ask your questions directly on savvion-blog.blogspot.com by posting your questions on this page.

Different ways to install templates

There are three ways to install your application that I found.

1) Using BPM Portal
i)  Login to BPM Portal and go to Administration > Applications > BizLogic
ii) Click the check box of the application and press 'Install' or 'Uninstall' the applications.

Commands to get installed process templates list

There are two commands through which you can get the process templates installed on your server.

Installing Savvion BizLogic Application

To deploy your application to savvion, make sure that your project .xml file is placed under SBM_HOME/ebmsapps directory.

You can install your application from BPM Portal Administration page or using BizLogic Admin commands. Below directions will allow you to install the application using BizLigic Admin commands.

Savvion Forum

How to configure length of Document and URL Dataslot Types

Savvion supports a length limit for the Document's name for Document dataslot and URL address in a URL dataslot. The maximum length for the name of this dataslot is 256 characters. The value is not displayed or truncated if the name of the document or URL address exceeds 256 characters.

Process Status Viewer

Process Status Viewer or 'PSV Flow View' is the feature provided by Savvion to allow users to see the process status in the form of a flowchart.

How to install Process Template Version

You already have a template installed on the Savvion Server and modified the template to include some changes then you need to install the version of the template instead of using the CreateAndInstallPt BizLogic Admin command.

Plug dynamic data to request form controls in Savvion 7.5

If you have your Java code which retrieve the information from third party, but not sure how to plug that dynamic data in to the request form to populate any of your controls on request form, then see below steps which will help you to do that.

Savvion Data Types and Mapping

Below table consists of the Savvion Dataslot Data Types and its mapping with the Java Data Types.