Creating a process

A process contains the activities of a business process. At run time, a business user works with tasks that are created for the activities.

About this task

You create a process from the Processes category in the library.

Procedure

  1. In the library, click + for the Processes category. In the New menu, select Process.
  2. In the New Process dialog, enter a name for the process.
  3. Click Finish. The editor opens in the Overview page.
    The process you created is added in the Processes category. An inline user task is also automatically added to the Definitions page.
  4. In the Definition page, design your process flow by dragging the elements from the palette onto the diagram area and connecting them together.

What to do next

How you design and implement your process depends on the business process you're automating. The following list summarizes the high-level steps you can take to add artifacts to your process.
  • Implement activities. Activities represent the logical work that a specific team or system completes. See Implementing activities.
  • Create or assign teams. Assign a team whose members can start a process, or an instance owner team whose members can work with tasks in Workplace. See Assigning teams.
  • Integrate services. Create service flows to call REST services or Java applications, or use external services. See Integrating services.
  • Capture business data used by activities and services in business objects and variables. See Business objects and variables.
  • Create user interfaces through which users can view and interact with business processes, data or process instances in Workplace. See Creating user interfaces.
  • Enable document support. See Enabling document support.