Model Design

When designing your models and related resources for the Living Systems® Process Suite, you will do so in the integrated development environment Living Systems® Process Design Suite (PDS), a programming platform.

To create a model, first you need to create the model structure: projects with modules. Then you can create the content of your model in dedicated definition files. The definition files will hold the elements and their properties needed by your model.

You model can contain and make use of the following:

• BPMN and GO-BPMN Processes,
• global variables,
• organization models and use their units to involve correct users in an activity
• documents used as permanent content in the front-end application,
• forms with content of documents and to-dos,
• localization identifiers to have your texts displayed in the required language in the front-end application
• function definitions,
• definitions of queries to databases,
• data types,
• persistent data types,
• constants,
• decision tables.

To integrate you models with external systems, you can use

• support for web services in your processes.
• support for integration with Jasper reports.

It is recommended to use a version control system, such as git to store your models: Make sure to track .project directories of your models.

Note that you can import and export the resources.

Your resources will rely on the resources of the Standard Library. Apart from the Standard Library, you can use other out-of-the-box libraries.

Once your model is ready, you can present it in the Business Modeling perspective.