Collaborate on development
of forms, documents, and business processes
Adobe® LiveCycle® Workbench ES is an Eclipse™ based integrated development environment (IDE) that allows developers, designers, and business analysts to work together collaboratively. In previous generations of LiveCycle, developers used different tools for various tasks. But with LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, all tasks come together in a single, intuitive tool — LiveCycle Workbench ES.
Work in a single integrated development environment for form, document, and process design.
Empower developers and business analysts to work together collaboratively.
Simplify the management and creation of process components, fragments, templates, and schemas.
Easily create abstract business processes with support for Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) constructs.
How it works
Step 1. Design a form or document
The Form Design perspective in LiveCycle Workbench ES embeds LiveCycle Designer ES for creating PDF, SWF, and HTML interactive forms and dynamic documents of record. Related assets — schemas, images, and fragments — are stored in the LiveCycle ES Foundation central repository and can be accessed from the resource panel within LiveCycle Workbench ES.
The central repository in LiveCycle ES Foundation provides many timesaving capabilities, such as form fragment libraries for reuse, auditing for management, and versioning for structured development and deployment. The ability to move archives (groups of related assets that can be packaged together) removes many manual tasks. By relating assets in the repository, these applications can be exported and transferred to other LiveCycle systems.
Step 2. Define your process
Using the Process perspective in LiveCycle Workbench ES, you can visually create process maps that define and control your automated business processes. Business analysts can create process diagrams using swimlanes and activities following common modeling methodologies such as Rummler-Brache and IDEF, or industry standards such as the Object Management Group's Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). Processes can be categorized and versioned into minor and major versions. To create a process, a business analyst or process developer can use the modeling elements view for standard modeling constructs such as activities, annotations, and gateways, or the services view to drag and drop already created processes as subprocesses or services to implement specific activities and business events from the events view. The Process perspective in Workbench ES supports a number of usability features such as the ability to snap to grid to make layout of diagrams easier, and an overview view that allows easy navigation when diagrams get large.
Step 3. Integrate it all
Using Adobe Flex™ Builder™ 2 and LiveCycle Data Services ES software, you can create and customize RIAs that integrate with the forms and processes designed with LiveCycle Workbench ES.
Step 4. Deploy to the server
Developers export the forms, processes, and related resources (such as images, DDX schemas, and XML schemas) as a LiveCycle ES archive (LCA) file to be deployed as an application to the LiveCycle ES production server — in either standalone or clustered systems.
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