Capabilities
Collaborate on process design and development
Using the Process perspective in Adobe® LiveCycle® Workbench ES3 software, you can visually create process maps. 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, the user can use modeling elements such as activities, annotations, and gateways, or existing processes as subprocesses or services to implement specific activities and business events. The Process perspective in LiveCycle Workbench ES3 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.
Create intelligent personalized forms and documents
Nonprogrammers can use Adobe's drag-and-drop design tool for creating electronic forms and documents. Build intelligent templates that merge with enterprise data to deliver interactive forms or personalized documents in a wide variety of electronic or print formats using the Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES3 module.
Streamline development by using a common data model
Adobe application modeling technology enables application developers to write applications at a higher level, reducing the amount of code and simplifying data integration in the development of applications. The Data Model perspective in Workbench ES3 allows developers to create data models that work with both Guides and Processes, simplifying the exchange of data between LiveCycle ES3 modules and streamlining back-end integration with core business applications.
Dynamically create sophisticated documents and PDF Portfolios
The DocBuilder perspective in Workbench ES3 provides the capability to generate document description XML (DDX) with both a graphical and an XML source editor. This new perspective creates the input DDX to the Assembler service and provides a means to view and edit the XML source, as well as preview and validate the results from within the Workbench context. The graphical editor enables the full range of page content capabilities — including adding headers, footers, watermarks, and backgrounds — plus control of document components such as building PDF Portfolios, adding links and bookmarks, and merging forms and documents.
Leverage existing resources with a common repository
Simplify the management and reuse of forms, common form fragments, images, processes, components, and schemas. Workbench ES3 provides a single, unified authoring tool with versioning, check-in/checkout, and granular access controls for creating PDF forms, Output templates, Guides, business processes, and Java™ components. Using Workbench, your team can collaborate more effectively, improve productivity, accelerate development, and speed time to market. Business analysts can share their process designs, form designers can create the layout and user experience, and IT developers can refer to these documents when binding form data and adding scripting.
Simplify testing and automate deployment
With Workbench ES3, you can preview your business process, including testing Form interfaces, and record the process results. The Workbench playback view allows you to visually trace the results along each step of the process map. Use the record and playback tools for reviewing the application design with business stakeholders, and then refine your processes. Then, deployments can be scripted to automate publishing, from development to the test, stage, and production environments.
