Defining Business Objects
Use the FileNet P8 Platform Enterprise Manager (EM) to define Business Objects. Business
Objects are specialized objects that store the state of (persist) the business-specific
data in an Object Store.
While defining business objects, you might perform one, or more, of the following
steps:
- Define classes and properties.
- Determine and define the security requirements on the new classes and properties.
- Define event subscriptions. (Which includes either changes to a class, to
all instances of a class, to a version series, or to a workflow-related event.)
- Associate actions with events. (For example, launch workflows in Process
Engine based on events that occured in the Object Store.)
Actions and events exist in the Content Engine:
- Checking a document into an Object Store generates the following events:
Object_Create, Object_Update, Object_Update, and Document_Checkin.
- Checking a document out of an Object Store generates the following events:
Object_Update, Object_Create, and Document_CheckOut.
- Define lifecycle policies and management. (Lifecyles apply only to documents.)
Events actions and lifecycle policies are defined using the FileNet P8 Platform COM
API to develop scripts or DLLs.
More Information
See the Content Engine Books Online help or the Enterprise Manager (EM)
help for more information on creating classes and properties, defining lifecycles,
and associating events.