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Service architects can use the Advanced Service Designer to create advanced services and publish them
to the service catalog. They can also create and publish post-provisioning operations that the consumers
can perform on provisioned items.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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Creating Advanced Services
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Custom Resources
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Resource Mappings
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Service Blueprints
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Resource Actions
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Creating Advanced Services
By using the Advanced Service Designer, you can define new service offerings and publish them to the
common catalog as catalog items.
You can create advanced services for either requesting or provisioning. The services for requesting do
not provision items and provide no options for post-provisioning operations. Examples of services for
requesting include services for sending emails, generating reports, performing complex calculations, and
so on. For a service that results in a provisioned item, you can create a custom resource so that you can
access and manage the items on the Items tab.
To define the service specification, you create a service blueprint and publish it as a catalog item. After
you publish a catalog item, you must include it in a service category. You can use an existing service or
create one. A tenant administrator or business group manager can entitle the whole service or only the
catalog item to specific users.
If you created a custom resource for a provisioned item, you can create resource actions to define the
post-provisioning operations that the consumers can perform. You can also create resource actions for an
item that is provisioned by a source different from the Advanced Service Designer, for example by IaaS.
For this purpose, first you must create a resource mapping to define the type of the catalog item.
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