Chapter 10. Sample projects and business assets in Business Central
Chapter 10. Sample projects and business assets in Business Central Business Central contains sample projects with business assets that you can use as a reference for the rules, processes, or other assets that you create in your own Red Hat Process Automation Manager projects. Each sample project is designed differently to demonstrate process automation, decision management, or business optimization assets and logic in Red Hat Process Automation Manager. Note Red Hat does not provide support for the sample code included in the Red Hat Process Automation Manager distribution. The following sample projects are available in Business Central: Course_Scheduling : (Business optimization) Course scheduling and curriculum decision process. Assigns lectures to rooms and determines a student's curriculum based on factors such as course conflicts and class room capacity. Dinner_Party : (Business optimization) Guest seating optimization using guided decision tables. Assigns guest seating based on each guest's job type, political beliefs, and known relationships. Employee_Rostering : (Business optimization) Employee rostering optimization using decision and solver assets. Assigns employees to shifts based on skills. Evaluation_Process : (Process automation) Evaluation process using business process assets. Evaluates employees based on performance. IT_Orders : (Process automation and case management) Ordering case using business process and case management assets. Places an IT hardware order based on needs and approvals. Mortgages : (Decision management with rules) Loan approval process using rule-based decision assets. Determines loan eligibility based on applicant data and qualifications. Mortgage_Process : (Process automation) Loan approval process using business process and decision assets. Determines loan eligibility based on applicant data and qualifications. OptaCloud : (Business optimization) Resource allocation optimization using decision and solver assets. Assigns processes to computers with limited resources. Traffic_Violation : (Decision management with DMN) Traffic violation decision service using a Decision Model and Notation (DMN) model. Determines driver penalty and suspension based on traffic violations. 10.1. Accessing sample projects and business assets in Business Central You can use the sample projects in Business Central to explore business assets as a reference for the rules or other assets that you create in your own Red Hat Process Automation Manager projects. Prerequisites Business Central is installed and running. For installation options, see Planning a Red Hat Process Automation Manager installation . Procedure In Business Central, go to Menu Design Projects . If there are existing projects, you can access the samples by clicking the MySpace default space and selecting Try Samples from the Add Project drop-down menu. If there are no existing projects, click Try samples . Review the descriptions for each sample project to determine which project you want to explore. Each sample project is designed differently to demonstrate process automation, decision management, or business optimization assets and logic in Red Hat Process Automation Manager. Select one or more sample projects and click Ok to add the projects to your space. In the Projects page of your space, select one of the sample projects to view the assets for that project. Select each asset to explore how the project is designed to achieve the specified goal or workflow. Some of the sample projects contain more than one page of assets. Click the left or right arrows in the upper-right corner to view the full asset list. Figure 10.1. Asset page selection In the upper-right corner of the project Assets page, click Build to build the sample project or Deploy to build the project and then deploy it to KIE Server. Note You can also select the Build & Install option to build the project and publish the KJAR file to the configured Maven repository without deploying to a KIE Server. In a development environment, you can click Deploy to deploy the built KJAR file to a KIE Server without stopping any running instances (if applicable), or click Redeploy to deploy the built KJAR file and replace all instances. The time you deploy or redeploy the built KJAR, the deployment unit (KIE container) is automatically updated in the same target KIE Server. In a production environment, the Redeploy option is disabled and you can click Deploy only to deploy the built KJAR file to a new deployment unit (KIE container) on a KIE Server. To configure the KIE Server environment mode, set the org.kie.server.mode system property to org.kie.server.mode=development or org.kie.server.mode=production . To configure the deployment behavior for a corresponding project in Business Central, go to project Settings General Settings Version , toggle the Development Mode option, and click Save . By default, KIE Server and all new projects in Business Central are in development mode. You cannot deploy a project with Development Mode turned on or with a manually added SNAPSHOT version suffix to a KIE Server that is in production mode. To review project deployment details, click View deployment details in the deployment banner at the top of the screen or in the Deploy drop-down menu. This option directs you to the Menu Deploy Execution Servers page.