Some of my business processes are getting pretty involved. In other languages I would be using comments like crazy to remind myself later why I coded it that way.

I don't see how to add comments or annotations in the Graphic Process Modeler (GPM).

I probably could manually add XML comments in the source, but that would mess up my pretty layout that helps me understand the flow. View -> Auto Layout doesn't help at all.

Is there a way in the GPM to add comments or annotations?

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Patrick Bartkus
B2Bi 6.0.3
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Hi Patrick,

What i have tried in the past was changing the name of the icon in the GPM to be more descriptive about what you are doing.

For example, instead of FTP Begin Session Service change the name to TestPartner FTP Begin Session or FTP Client CD Service call it "CD /newfolder".

For choices, i like to put information from the rule it will reference.

For example, instead of "Choice" i will put "ListNames/Name>0" to see if there are files after listing.

In the BPML, this change will be reflected in <operation name>

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Matthew Hasselman
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Hi Patrick.
Using GPM you can add annotations in each connector into the BP.
Just need to select the service you want and then, right button and select annotations. A new window is open an you can add all you want.
Then, when you put the mouse in the service, the annotation is showed.



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Antonio Conde
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Eclipse.. Beginners use GPM :)

if you want to add comments to BP, you must not use GPM, it removes all the comments from code, If you are really not comfortable with XML, then use GPM to configure the service, then select View->source and copy that XML to Eclipse.


-Dhiraj Patil

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Dhiraj Patil
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