Self-maintaining hyperlinks in method authoring content

摘要

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to embedded hyperlinks in method content for a process modeler and provide a method, system and computer program product for self-maintaining hyperlinks in method content for a process modeler. In one embodiment of the invention, a self-maintaining hyperlink management method can be provided. The method can include parsing a method element in a process model to locate a self-maintaining hyperlink, locating a unique identifier in the self-maintaining hyperlink, retrieving data for external content associated with the unique identifier and replacing placeholder content in the self-maintaining hyperlink with the retrieved data. Thereafter, the process model can be published with the retrieved data in place of the placeholder content in the self-maintaining hyperlink.

主权项

1. A self-maintaining hyperlink management method comprising:
parsing in a process modeler executing in memory by at least one processor of a host computing platform, a method element in a process model to locate a self-maintaining hyperlink, the parsing comprising identifying a class reference within the hyperlink and determining whether the hyperlink is self-maintaining according to the class reference; locating a unique identifier in the self-maintaining hyperlink only if it is determined that the hyperlink is self-maintaining; retrieving data for external content associated with the unique identifier; replacing placeholder content in the self-maintaining hyperlink with the retrieved data; and, publishing the process model with the retrieved data in place of the placeholder content in the self-maintaining hyperlink.