Set Up Business Process Management Services in Cloud Cockpit

To create service instances for business process management services, you need to ensure that you have the right set of entitlements in your trial account.

1. In your web browser, open the SAP Cloud Platform Trial cockpit.

2. Navigate into the trial subaccount

   

   The trial account should contain one subaccount and space

3. Open Entitlements from left panel. You should have the following entitlements in your account.

   If not, then use Configure Environments to add these entitlements.

   Here is an explanation of these different entitlements:

   • Connectivity is needed to configure destination

   • Portal and HTML5 Application is needed to access Process Visibility and Workflow applications from Fiori Launchpad

   • Business Rules, Workflow and Process Visibility is needed to create service instances of these respective services in order to work with them.

   

Download the BPMServicesFLP.zip from GitHub in your local file system.

This multitarget application when deployed will (a) create new service instances for workflow, business rules and process visibility in cloud foundry environment, (b) creates an application to access business rules editor and Fiori Launchpad for workflow and process visibility applications.

1. In your web browser, open the SAP Cloud Platform Trial cockpit.

2. Choose Launch SAP Web IDE.

   If you are new user then Web IDE Full-Stack will not be enabled for your account and you will see a message saying “SAP Web IDE Full-Stack is not be enabled for this account”. Follow the instructions on the Web IDE page, to enable the Web IDE.

   

3. In the navigation area of SAP Web IDE, choose the Preferences icon.

   

4. Select the Extensions preference, and search for workflow.

5. Toggle the button to switch on the Workflow Editor extension, and Save the changes.

   If a confirmation popup appears, then click Refresh to apply the changes.

   

6. Select Cloud Foundry preference.

7. Enter the following details, and Save the changes:

   Field Name	Value	Example
   API End Point	Your trial API End point	https://api.cf.eu10.hana.ondemand.com or https://api.cf.us10.hana.ondemand.com depending upon the region of your trial account
   Organization	Your trial organisation	trial_P237800
   Space	Your trial space	dev

   In the credentials popup, enter your trial user email and password. If you normally login via single-sign on, login with your domain password.

   

1. In the navigation area of the SAP Web IDE, choose the Development icon.

2. Right-click the Workspace root folder, then choose Import | File or Project.

   

3. In the Import dialog, browse for the BPMServicesFLP.zip file that you downloaded in your local system and choose OK.

   

4. The multitarget application gets imported under the Workspace folder and the file structure is shown below.

   Ensure that have chosen Show Hidden Files to be able to view the app-router file structure as shown.

   

When you build and deploy this application, there will be new service instances created for each workflow, business rules and process visibility service in cloud foundry.

1. Right-click on the BPMServicesFLP project and choose any of the Build option.

   

2. After the build completes, navigate to the mta_archives | BPMServicesFLP_0.0.1.mtar file.

   

3. Right-click BPMServicesFLP_0.0.1.mtar and choose Deploy | Deploy to SAP Cloud Platform.

   

   In the popup, select the Cloud Foundry API Endpoint, Organisation and Space where you would want to deploy the application.

   

   There could be deployment errors:

   • if you have not enabled the entitlements of workflow, business rules, process visibility and portal. Ensure that you have followed Step 1 to do the necessary entitlements.

   • if you already have the instance of either workflow, business rules or process visibility created of same name. In that case, update modules and resources section in mta.yaml to replace that service instance name with a new unique name.

1. In your web browser, open the cockpit of SAP Cloud Platform Trial.

2. Click Enter Your Trial Account

3. Open Security | Role Collections and click New Role Collection to add new roles.

   

   Enter Name as BPMServices and Description as Roles to access Intelligent BPM services. Once done, Save the changes.

   

4. Click BPMServices to navigate into role collection to add roles.

   

5. Click Add Role and select these roles to add them to the role collection one by one. In Add Role popup, click Save after each selection.

   

   Application Identifier	Role Template and Role
   bpmrulebroker	RuleRepositorySuperUser
   	RuleRuntimeSuperUser
   pvreuserservice	PVDeveloper
   	PVAdmin
   	PVEventSender
   	PVOperator
   	PVTenantOperator
   workflow	WorkflowAdmin
   	WorkflowContextViewer
   	WorkflowDeveloper
   	WorkflowInitiator
   	WorkflowParticipant

   

6. To assign the role collection to your trial user, switch to Security | Trust Configuration and select SAP ID Service.

   

7. In the Role Collection Assignment page, enter your trial user email and click Show Assignments.

   If you are doing this for first time, you will get a popup to select Add User.

8. Click Assign Role Collection and select BPMServices role collection.

   

The sample business rules used in this scenario is published in API Business Hub. This destination will be used in SAP Cloud Platform Business Rules to connect to API Business Hub to discover and import sample rules.

1. Go back to the subaccount trial and switch to Connectivity | Destinations from the left-hand navigation.

2. Click New Destination.

3. Enter the following details:

   Field Name	Value
   Name	BUSINESSRULES_APIHUB
   URL	https://api.sap.com
   Authentication	BasicAuthentication
   User	your trial user id
   Password	your trial password

   

4. Save the destination.

The sample workflow calls business rules to determine the list of equipment needed for the new hire. This destination (BUSINESS_RULES) will be used while modelling the workflow to call the business rules APIs.

Choose New Destination, and enter the following data:

Replace eu10 with us10 in the URLs if your trial account is in US region. For example, the URL in above destination will become:

https://bpmruleruntime.cfapps.us10.hana.ondemand.com/rules-service

To get Client ID, Client Secret and Token Service URL: (a) navigate into your dev space in your trial cockpit, (b) select Service Instances from left panel, (c) search for rules, and then select businessrules service instance and (d) navigate into businessrules to get clientid, clientsecret, and url.

These applications will be used in next tutorials to work with business rules, workflow and process visibility. One link is for the Fiori Launchpad which will be used to access workflow and process visibility applications and another link is to access business rules editor.

You can open both the links in different browser tabs and use them in further tutorials.

1. Click on Spaces and then navigate into dev space.

2. In dev space, click on Applications and from among the available applications select BPMServicesFLP_appRouter application.

   

3. In the Overview section, click app-router link to open workflow, business rules and process visibility applications.

   Log on with your trial user ID and password to the application.

   

   This will open the SAP Fiori launchpad with Workflow and Process Visibility tiles.

   

   In the same link, append /comsapbpmrule.ruleeditor/index.html after app-router link to open business rules editor.

   For example: https://trial-userid-dev-bpmservicesflp-approuter.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com/comsapbpmrule.ruleeditor/index.html

   

This completes the set up of starter scenario for Intelligent Business Process Management in your trial account. In next tutorial, you will access the sample content of these different services, quickly set them up in your account and then run the scenario to get an integrated experience.