Adobe LiveCycle ES Building Applications

Adobe® LiveCycle™ ES Building Applications software helps organizations streamline, integrate, and secure human-centric business processes within and beyond the firewall — whether users are online or offline. Through the unique component-based architecture of Adobe LiveCycle Workflow, both business and IT professionals can visually assemble end-to-end workflows that unify people, systems, documents, business rules, and Web services — quickly and flexibly. And because it leverages industry-standard technologies, such as PDF, J2EE, XML, and Web services, Adobe LiveCycle Workflow is highly scalable and integrates easily into virtually any IT infrastructure.  This course focuses on learing the fundamentals of Adobe LiveCycle Process Management ES, Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions ES, and Adobe Policy Server ES.

• business analysts, workflow administrators and developers
• The course focuses on designing workflows using the core components that ship with the product

• A basic understanding of XML data structure and components
• A basic understanding of web services and of service-oriented architecture
• A basic understanding of Active Directory domains and organizational units
• An understanding of building Adobe LiveCycle Forms, as covered in our Adobe LiveCycle ES: Designing Forms course.

• Define business processes and workflows and describe how Adobe LiveCycle applications provide process automation and enterprise integration.
• Develop a basic process and control the flow of data within the workflow.
• Design and integrate processes using Workflow Designer and the core components.
• Manage and troubleshoot workflows.
• Install and configure Adobe LiveCycle Workflow using the turnkey install.

Introducing the Course

• Introducing Mastery Learning
• Understanding the Course Format
• Reviewing the Course Prerequisites
• Reviewing the Course Outline

Introducing Adobe LiveCycle ES (Enterprise Suite)

• Understanding LiveCycle ES
• Development Tools
• LiveCycle ES solution components
• LiveCycle Foundation
• LiveCycle ES architecture 

Getting Started with Adobe LiveCycle Workbench ES

• Understanding the relationship between Eclipse and Workbench ES
• Exploring the Workbench ES interface
• Understanding editors
• Understanding views
• Understanding perspectives
• Manipulating views within  a perspective

Getting Started with LiveCycle Applications

• Planning your application
• Defining a Business Process
• Identify participants in the process
• Define the business process to be automated
• Key questions to be answered
• Designing a Process Diagram
• A sample Business Process
• Using a tiered development environment
• Using the LiveCycle ES Workspace
• Initiating a Process
• The To Do list
• Tracking Tasks
• Preferences

Using Forms in LiveCycle ES Applications

• Adding Resources to the LiveCycle Repository
• Types of Forms
• Managing Resources
• Resource Versioning 
• Preparing forms for use in LiveCycle applications 
• LiveCycle Process Fields

Creating a Process

• Creating a process diagram in Workbench ES
• Process categories
• Processes
• Advanced options for processes
• Process versions
• Process diagrams
• Organizing process Diagrams
• Routes
• The Modeling elements view
• Specifying the start activity for a process
• Defining variables for a process version
• Creating variables
• Storing form data in a variable
• Defining operations in a process diagram
• Using the Assign Task operation

Lab 1

• The expense report process

Deploying a Process

• Managing a process
• Activating process versions
• Deactivating process versions
• Creating a LiveCycle archive file
• Importing archive files
• Configuring a service
• Category Management
• Endpoint Management
• Configuring a security profile
• Testing the application

Monitoring and Troubleshooting Applications

• Monitoring applications
• Email alerts
• Viewing active processes
• Searching for a process
• Searching for tasks assigned to a user
• Troubleshooting an application
• Process stalls
• Variable Logger service

Implementing Business Rules to Control Process Flow

• Selecting routes based on business rules
• Using rules based on routes
• Using the Decision Point service
• Checking route evaluation order
• Using process data on different forms
• Associating data with a presentation

Lab 2

• The expense report process

Using the Forms Service within a Process

• The Forms Service
• Form types
• Form render options
• The Secure Documents Process
• The Form Augmenter Service

Using Rights Management Service within a Process

• Examining Document Protection
• Document Control
• Document Revocation
• Dynamic Watermarks
• Document Auditing
• The Rights Management Service
• Policies
• Policy Sets
• Policy Set Coordinator
• Document Publisher

Using the Reader Extensions Service

• Understanding the Reader Extensions Service
• Using a Reader Extensions ES digital certificate
• Using the Reader Extensions Service from the web interface
• Creating a short lived process using the reader extensions service
• Using a watched folder
• Using the Reader Extensions service in a process

Creating and Rendering Form Guides Within a Process

• Form Guides
• Form Guide structure
• Creating form guides
• Scripts in form guides
• Using a form guide in Workspace ES
• Rendering Form Guides
• The render form guide sample process
• the submit form guide sample process
• Customizing Form Guides
• Form Guide properties
• Field properties
• Display rules

Appendix A: Student Setup Guide

Deploying a Process

• System Requirements
• System Instructions