Cisco Cisco Process Orchestrator 3.0 User Guide

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Chapter 10      Authoring Categories
  Creating Categories
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Creating Categories
Categories can be used to organize your processes based on your business-specific requirements. Use 
the Definitions > Categories view to create a new category and add members to the category. You can 
also add members to a category when defining a process.
For additional information about defining a process, see 
To create a category:
Step 1
Choose Definitions > Categories, right-click and choose New > Category
Step 2
In the New Category Properties property sheet, update the properties for this category, then click OK.
Note
For information about the field parameters, see the online help.
Adding Objects to a Category
You can choose the objects (or create new objects) to be included as members of a category. Both 
processes and categories can be included as members of a category. 
Note
The category membership of a locked process cannot be edited by other users. For more information 
about locked processes, see 
To add members to a category:
Step 1
Choose Definitions > Categories, select a category, right-click and choose Properties.
Step 2
Click the Members tab, then click Add.
Step 3
In the Objects available for category membership dialog box, use one of the following methods to select 
objects:
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If the appropriate objects are listed under Select Category Members, choose the appropriate 
categories or processes to be included in the category, and click OK.
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If the appropriate objects are not listed, click one of the following to create a new object, and click 
OK
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New > Categories—Define the properties of a new category 
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New > Processes—Define the properties of a new process. 
The new object displays in the Select Category Members list. Highlight the new object and any other 
objects, as necessary. The selected items display on the Members tab. 
Step 4
Click OK to close the dialog box and complete the procedure.