About EDA Event Types and Integration Server Document Types

In general, you can work directly with EDA event types available from the Package Explorer view when you are designing a business process. However, you can also add an EDA event type to a process from the Package Navigator view as an Integration Server (IS) document type that represents the EDA event type.

Each time you add an EDA event type to a process model in the process editor, Designer determines if there is a corresponding EDA event type in a package on the connected Integration Server. The package represents the EDA event type project and it contains an IS document type that represents the event type.

If no corresponding EDA event type package and EDA event type document type exists on the Integration Server, Designer creates one. If an EDA event type project contains more than one event type, only the event type you are working with is added to the Integration Server package as an IS document type. You might have to refresh the Package Navigator view to see the newly added package or document type.

The result is that after you add an EDA event type to a process, an IS document type is available for use in your process models. You can create an EDA event type-enabled step with an IS document using the same procedures described in the following topics, except that you drag or select the IS document type instead of the actual EDA event type:

Important:

If you choose to work offline without an active Integration Server connection, you can add the EDA event type to the process, but when you attempt to build and upload the process, the build and upload may fail with an error that the EDA event type package does not exist on the Integration Server. This will occur if the EDA event type project you are working with has not been previously created as a package on the Integration Server.

If this occurs, the simplest way to resolve the problem is to delete the EDA event type step that is causing the error from the process, establish a connection to Integration Server, and then add the EDA event type step to the process again. This will create the required package for the EDA event type on the Integration Server.