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another collaboration object, the combination of collaboration objects is a collaboration-object group. Any number of collaboration objects can be bound into a group. The behavior of collaboration objects that are members of a collaboration-object group is different from the behavior of those that are not members of a group. When you apply a command such as start, pause, or stop to a collaboration object that is a member of a group, the command affects all members of the group. All members of a collaboration-object group must support the same transaction level in order for one member of the group to execute transactionally. If you bind a collaboration object that has transactional level None to a collaboration object that has transaction level Best Effort, both run at level None. Creating a collaboration object This section describes how to create a new collaboration object using the System Manager wizard. It describes the general flow of the wizard and references other sections in this chapter to address the specifics of collaboration object configuration. Do the following to create a collaboration object using the wizard: 1. In System Manager, right-click on the Collaboration Objects folder in an integration component library and choose Create New Collaboration Object from the context menu. The "Create New Collaboration" wizard appears, listing the installed templates in the Template Name column and a description (if available) in the Description column. The dialog is the first screen in a wizard that steps you through the initial creation and configuration of a collaboration object. You can later modify the configuration values. 2. Select the collaboration template upon which the object should be based from the list of templates. The name you select is displayed in the Selected Collaboration template field below the list. You can also type text in the Find field and the dialog will select a collaboration template whose name begins with the characters you type in the field. You can then use the up and down arrows to navigate among templates that share the pattern of characters, if there are several that match. 3. Type a name for the collaboration object in the Collaboration object name field. Note: Do not give the collaboration object exactly the same name as the collaboration template from which it is derived. That is, if the collaboration template name is SalesOrderProcessing, the name of the collaboration object cannot be simply SalesOrderProcessing. If the names are completely identical, you will not be able to access the collaboration object using repos_copy with the -e (Entity) option because repos_copy searches for the collaboration template before searching for a collaboration object. A typical approach to naming the collaboration object is to include the name of the template along with the names of the source and destination applications that the collaboration object integrates, as in the following syntax: CollabTemplateName_SourceAppName_to_DestAppName The name cannot exceed 80 characters in length. 4. Click Next to advance the wizard to the Bind ports screen. 156 IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Express and Express Plus: System Implementation Guide