Creating a Subprocess

You can build a master process that relies on already defined processes to avoid redundancy. This capability quickens large-scale application building and allows you to build a process library, ensuring great reusability and capitalization of your work.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin:

You must have created a type called MainType and another one called TypeforSubProcess.

See Also
Subprocess Operation

Create the Operations

The creation of operations is the first step to create an app.

  1. Double-click the TypeforSubProcess type and click Sequence Combination to create a combination of operations.
  2. Click Bind Object .
    The Bind a PLMComponent operation is added to the tree.
  3. Click Manage Components .
    The Insert PLMComponents operation is added to the tree.
  4. Click Get Item from List .
    The Get Item From List operation is added to the tree.
  5. Click Subprocess to create the subprocess.
    The SubProcess.1 operation is added to the tree.

The operations are created.

Link the Operations

After creating the operations, you must create links between these operations.

  1. Double-click the Bind Object.
    The Bind a PLMComponent operation dialog box opens.
  2. Enter ExtObj in the Relative Name field and click OK. This retrieves the extended object at execution.
  3. Double-click Insert PLMComponents.
    The Insert components dialog box opens.
    • From the New component scrolling list, select the type you want to use, Product in this example.
    • In the Instantiation context area, click the Destination field, then click the Bind Object operation in the tree. Bind a PLMComponent\Link appears in the Destination field.
    • Click OK when done.
  4. Double-click Get Item From List.
    The Get Item from List dialog box opens.
  5. Select the List field and click the Manage Components operation in the tree.
    =ManagePLMComponent.1\GeneratedObjects appears in the List field. Click OK.
  6. Double-click SubProcess.1.
    1. In the SubProcess dialog box click ... located next to the SubProcess name field.
      The Process Browser opens.
    2. Click TypeForSubProcess and click OK.
    3. Click the Object to start process on field (meaning that the subprocess will be applied to the TargetObject) and click GetItemFromList.1.
    4. Click OK when done.

Your process is now created.