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:

  1. Define classes and properties.
  2. Determine and define the security requirements on the new classes and properties.
  3. 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.)
  4. 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:
  5. 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.