Informatica Active VOS Designer

Explore the AVOS designer overview, including perspectives, project explorer, participants, process variables, and server configuration; learn to add views and run workflows for orchestration projects.

Create your first orchestration project in Informatica ActiveVOS Designer by setting up a banking project framework with folders and templates for services, external partner services, and deployment files.

Create a BPEL process in Informatica Active VOS Designer by configuring the process name, target, expression language, and version, then explore templates and pilot components.

Explore the palette in Informatica Active VOS Designer, learn to show, search, drag, and drop components—tasks, events, gateways, controls, and data objects—to build a process.

Explore a bank loan use case where officers assess high and low risk, review large loan amounts, and apply manual intervention to approve or reject.

Create the first receive activity in Informatica active vOS designer by dragging a catch activity from the palette, naming it receive customer requests for a loan amount.

Explore layout options in Informatica Active VOS Designer by learning to minimize and maximize, align components, and apply auto layout and thumbnail views to manage complex workflows.

Understand how schema and WSDL define loan request structures, attributes, namespaces, risk assessment and loan approval interactions in a loan processing workflow.

Create a loan process consumer to model a three-participant loan workflow—process, risk assessment, and approval/reject—using a BPL file in the banking project.

Learn to configure a receive activity in Informatica Active VOS Designer by using the loan processor as a participant, selecting the request operation, and creating a single credit information variable.

Configure a ripple reply activity from the catch event to the loan processor, clean the canvas, set a single variable, and ensure start and end activities align for correct receipt.

Create a risk assessment provider and configure the external partner service as the risk assessment service interface for the activity. Review partner links and documentation for the risk assessment provider.

Create an invoke risk assessment activity in Informatica Active VOS Designer by mapping the credit information input and the risk score output between the risk check and the loan process.

Create a loan approval provider as a partner service in the banking project, defining the approval method, input/output, and fault handling alongside a risk assessment provider.

Explore the outline view in Informatica Active VOS Designer to identify components, extensions, namespaces, variables, correlations, and workflow activities, and learn how to reorganize and add variables and namespaces.

Explore how namespaces in Informatica Active VOS Designer group web service components to prevent ambiguity, and learn to create, rename, and delete unique namespaces.

Explore conditional activities to drive a loan workflow, using if conditions to route large loans to review, categorize low or high risk, and approve or reject.

Learn to implement loan risk logic in Informatica Active VOS Designer using the expression builder: classify loans as large, low, or high risk based on amount and risk assessment outputs.

Create a reply activity for low risk loan decisions in Informatica Active VOS Designer, linking the loan request and loan message components to send an approval message to the customer.

Configure a deny activity for high risk loans, generating a response message via a loan processor, with data expressions and literals, and copy-paste to reuse approved workflows.

Orchestrate a large loan review by invoking an external loan approval service, feeding credit information after risk assessment, and capturing the approval message while handling errors in the workflow.

Configure the large loan approval workflow by defining approval and deny responses for low and high risk, and implement a reply type activity to notify the loan processor.

Discover fault handling in the Informatica Active VOS Designer workflow, addressing abnormal scenarios and invalid activities to prevent defaults and ensure reliable application behavior.

Configure catch handlers to manage default fault messages in the loan approval workflow, selecting the loan process fault and defining a default error variable for downstream applications.

Define a reply activity to handle errors during the approval and risk assessment processes, mapping fault messages to customer responses and linking catch handlers in Informatica Active VOS Designer.

Learn how to validate a banking workflow in Informatica Active VOS Designer by enabling tests, configuring error messages, and verifying there are no errors before execution.

Load the sample credit information into the process by loading the credit information variable from the credit file, configure related process variables, and verify loan details to start testing.

Load the risk assessment by feeding credit information into the risk assessor and populating the output variable, then inspect the assessment data and view definitions for attributes.

Create new sample data in Informatica Active VOS Designer by generating simple data files for credit information and risk assessment and loading these variables.

Execute process simulation to conduct unit testing on your application in Informatica Active VOS Designer, stepping through initialization, data loading, and risk assessment using debugging and breakpoints.

Override values during execution or simulation of a workflow by loading a process variable from sample data. Use values greater than 10000 to drive risk assessment and loan approval.

Simulate a process to analyze errors and double the flow, testing low risk and high risk scenarios using sample data in the loan approval process.

Create a process deployment descriptor for the loan approval workflow by defining participant links, endpoints, risk assessment and loan approval service providers, then deploy the business process to the server.

Configure and start the active server in activos designer by creating a new server, selecting local hosts, and noting port 9080 for access as the activos enterprise server starts.

Create a business process deployment archive (BPA) by exporting it in Informatica ActiveVOS Designer, selecting the deployment type and project, and deploying a banking project such as loan approval.

Deploy a BPR file via the Active VOS console, verify the server and port binding, and deploy the process definition to the catalog.