Configuring fixed workflows

Introduction described the two fixed inbound workflow steps that you can configure--one for unpackaging a protocol and one for parsing the protocol. For outbound workflows, there is one step, for protocol packaging.

If you are going to use a user-defined handler to configure a workflow step, upload the handler, as described in Uploading handlers.

To configure a fixed workflow, perform the following steps:

  1. Click Hub Admin > Hub Configuration > Fixed Workflow.
  2. Click either Inbound or Outbound.
  3. Click the View Details icon next to the name of the step you want to configure.

    The step, along with a list of handlers already configured for that step, is listed. See Inbound workflows and Outbound workflow for a list of default handlers.

  4. Click the Edit icon to edit the list of handlers.
  5. Perform one or more of the following tasks for each step you want to modify.
    1. Add a handler by selecting the handler from the Available List and clicking Add. (A handler appears in the Available List if you uploaded a user-defined handler or if you previously removed a handler from the Configured List.) The handler is moved to the Configured List.
    2. Remove a handler by selecting the handler from the Configured List and clicking Remove. The handler is moved to the Available List.
    3. Rearrange the order in which the handlers are called by selecting the handler and clicking Move Up or Move Down.

      Handlers are called in the order in which they are listed in the Configured List. The first available handler that can process the request is the one that handles the request. If you anticipate receiving a large number of documents of a certain type (for example, ROD documents), you can move the handler associated with that type of document (in this example, com.ibm.bcg.edi.business.process.RODScannerHandler) to the top of the list.

  6. Click Save.

Inbound workflows

This section lists the handlers configured for the inbound workflows.

Protocol unpackaging handlers

By default, the Protocol Unpackaging step has the following handlers configured:

Protocol processing handlers

By default, the Protocol Processing step has the following handlers configured:

Outbound workflow

By default, the Protocol Packaging step has the following handlers configured:

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