Business Processes are organized flows of business activities or tasks that achieve a business goal. Anything that you can do in any business application can be defined as a Business Process. For example, a Business Process could add an employee, edit a timecard, approve a timecard, totalize time, post a schedule, and more.
Business Processes can be automated to minimize the amount of paperwork and manual tasks necessary to complete a process. For example, managers and employees receive automatically generated messages and complete online forms during the course of the Business Process.
Although a number of Business Process models are provided by default, you can customize these models or create your own in the Workflow Designer. The resulting Business Processes control API tasks in the application.
However, if you open a form using the Referenced form property for a User task in the Workflow Designer Visual Editor, Activiti marks the model as revised, even if you make no changes or discard any changes when exiting the Visual Editor. The Last Updated By column on the Process Models page displays the name of the logged-in user, and the Last Updated column displays the current date to reflect this activity. In this set of circumstances the Version column remains unchanged.
Administrators, managers, or employees start or respond to Business Processes from the Business Process tile on their home page, the GoTo control, the Control Center, Attestation Punch Tile, Smart View from devices or from notifications.
After Business Processes are created, administrators can:
- Configure access to Business Processes
- Configure notifications for Business Processes
- Configure Delegate Authority Business Process
- Administer Business Processes
With the appropriate access rights, users can:
- Run a Business Process
- Revert to previous versions
- Use the Business Process Library
- Use the Delegate Authority Business Process
