Creating Assets

Creating Assets

To create an asset

1. Do one of the following:

Use the Asset Types View or My View to display any assets in the Contents View. Click

in the toolbar of the Contents view.

In the Registry Explorer View, select the organization that provides the asset. Select New > Asset in the context menu.

2. On the Asset Details page of the Create Asset wizard, select the organization to which the new asset is to be assigned.

3. Select the type for the new asset.

4. Enter the name and, optionally, a description for the new asset. The name and description you enter in the dialog are stored for the language selected in the Changing Preference Settings of the Eclipse Workbench.

5. Click Finish to open the Details Editor for the new asset.

6. Use the tabs in the editor to Updating Registry Objects. The tabs that are displayed depend on the asset's type. You can, for example, define Properties of Registry Objects, Associations Between Registry Objects, External Links or Classifications of Registry Objects for the asset.

7. Save the object's definition, for example, by selecting File > Save from the main menu or by typing Ctrl+S.

Note:
To represent SOA assets in CentraSite, it is often not sufficient to create a single object in the registry. For example, a Web service or a process definition is represented by several Assets and Registry Objects as well as Supporting Documents and Resources in the CentraSite repository. Refer to Creating Services for the basic steps required to represent a Web service in CentraSite.

Instead of creating all the required registry objects, folders and files manually, you can use the CentraSite Importing Data into CentraSite. These functions allow you to import data of different types and create all the required registry objects, folders and files.