Creating a Custom palette with Custom activities.
1. Create a Custom palette
a) Select Palettes > My Palettes > New Palette from TIBCO Designer menu.
b) Specify a name in the dialog that appears
c) Custom palette appears in palette panel.
2. Drag and drop custom activity to custom palette.
3. Save the project
Distributing custom palette
1. Locate the file(s) containing the custom palette(s) which, by default, are stored in the location specified in the User Palette Directory foeld of the General User Preferences dialog. The file extension of the custom palette is .mypalette.
2. Copy the .mypalette file to the custom palette directory on the machines to use the custome palette. An installation program may be created to perform this step so that users can easily install the custom palettes.
3. Start TIBCO Designer and click the MyPalettes tab to see the custom palette. If TIBCO Designer is already running, click on Palettes > My Palettes > Reload Palettes from the menu to retrieve the new custom palette.
1. Create a Custom palette
a) Select Palettes > My Palettes > New Palette from TIBCO Designer menu.
b) Specify a name in the dialog that appears
c) Custom palette appears in palette panel.
2. Drag and drop custom activity to custom palette.
3. Save the project
Distributing custom palette
1. Locate the file(s) containing the custom palette(s) which, by default, are stored in the location specified in the User Palette Directory foeld of the General User Preferences dialog. The file extension of the custom palette is .mypalette.
2. Copy the .mypalette file to the custom palette directory on the machines to use the custome palette. An installation program may be created to perform this step so that users can easily install the custom palettes.
3. Start TIBCO Designer and click the MyPalettes tab to see the custom palette. If TIBCO Designer is already running, click on Palettes > My Palettes > Reload Palettes from the menu to retrieve the new custom palette.
- Custom activities behave like any other activity in TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks. The name of the Custom Activity and the name of the process definition in which the Custom Activity is included should be unique. If names are the same, input and output schemas are not displayed.
- Global Variables used in Custom Activity are automatically added to the Global Variable list in the project (if they are not included yet).
- When tracing is enabled, the trace information for activities executing within a custom activity is written to a log file.
