All objects in the Repository that need to be edited have
a corresponding editor.
The editors provide all relevant information about the objects.
Editors allow you to modify different properties of the object. For example:
You can add/remove assertions from a policy or add new endpoints to an Interface,
and so forth.
Locked Objects
Objects could be locked
(read only) in IBM® Business
Services Composition Studio due to two reasons:
- When the object has been modified a changelist is created i.e. that object
is reflected under the Active Changelist and when you submit that changelist
to governance that object moves from the Active Changelist to the Pending
Changelist. Object under the Pending Changelist are locked and cannot be modified
as long as they are in that list.
- The object is in a namespace that is not editable by the IBM Business Services
Composition Studio user.
- Editors of locked objects are read-only. You cannot delete a locked object.
Sometimes, even though a particular object is not locked, changing some property
in its editor could cause a locked object to change, so under these circumstances
you are given an error.
Delete Instance
All child object instances visible in
the Business Services Explorer have a delete option when they are right-clicked.
Listed here are certain rules that apply for deletion.
- You cannot delete Read Only objects.
- You cannot delete objects that indirectly affect read-only objects.
- Deleting business process objects have a cascading effect.
- Deleting Application Suites and Application, you have to disassociate
before deleting.
Validation Errors
All fields in the editor are validated
and if there is an error it is displayed. When a field has a validation error,
the editor will:
- For a warning, a warning icon is displayed
next to the text of the label.
- For an error, an error icon is displayed
next to the text and the color of
the field label is changed to red.
- In either cases of an error or a warning a validation message is shown
as a pop-up text on a mouse-over of the field label
Context Menus
- The New submenu will show up upon right clicking in the Business Services
Explorer of any perspective. It will have the option to Creating a studio project.
- If you right click on any specific item in the catalog explorer then you
also get the option to create any object. The new object will be created within
the project that was selected.