Contents

List of Examples

List of Figures

List of Tables

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Intended Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

What's New in This Guide for Release 11.1.1.7

1 Oracle Business Process Management Suite Overview

• 1.1 Introduction to the Oracle Business Process Management Suite
• 1.2 Oracle BPM User Personas
• 1.3 Oracle BPM Suite Components
  • 1.3.1 Process Modeling and Implementation
    • 1.3.1.1 Oracle BPM Studio
    • 1.3.1.2 Oracle Business Process Composer
    • 1.3.1.3 Oracle Metadata Service (MDS) Repository
    • 1.3.1.4 Oracle BPM Projects
  • 1.3.2 Oracle BPM Runtime Components
    • 1.3.2.1 Oracle BPM Engine
    • 1.3.2.2 Oracle Human Workflow
    • 1.3.2.3 Oracle Business Rules
    • 1.3.2.4 Oracle WebLogic Application Server
    • 1.3.2.5 Oracle Enterprise Manager
  • 1.3.3 Oracle BPM Suite Process Participant Applications
    • 1.3.3.1 Oracle Business Process Management Workspace (Process Workspace)
    • 1.3.3.2 Oracle Business Process Management Process Spaces (Process Spaces)
  • 1.3.4 Other Oracle BPM Suite Components
    • 1.3.4.1 Process Analytics
    • 1.3.4.2 Guided Business Processes
• 1.4 Oracle Business Process Analysis (BPA) Suite
• 1.5 Introduction to the Application Development Life Cycle
  • 1.5.1 Process Modeling
  • 1.5.2 Implementation
  • 1.5.3 Deployment
  • 1.5.4 Oracle BPM Runtime
• 1.6 Oracle BPM Use Cases
  • 1.6.1 Use Case: Using Business Process Composer to Create Projects
  • 1.6.2 Use Case: Using BPM Studio to Create Project Templates
  • 1.6.3 Use Case: Using BPM Studio to Model Processes and Deploy an Application
  • 1.6.4 Use Case: Using The Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite to Model Your Business Processes
• 1.7 Accessibility Options
  • 1.7.1 Enabling Accessibility Features in SOA Composer
  • 1.7.2 Enabling Accessibility Features in BPM Worklist

Part I Getting Started with Oracle Business Process Composer

2 Introduction to Oracle Business Process Composer

• 2.1 Introduction to Oracle Business Process Composer
  • 2.1.1 Process Design and Implementation
  • 2.1.2 Collaboration
  • 2.1.3 Simulation and Testing
  • 2.1.4 Deployment
• 2.2 Introduction to Business Process Composer Use Cases
  • 2.2.1 Use Case: Creating a New Oracle BPM Application
  • 2.2.2 Use Case: Create an Oracle BPM Application Based on a Project Templates
• 2.3 Signing On to Oracle Business Process Composer
• 2.4 Introduction to the Business Process Composer User Interface
  • 2.4.1 Introduction to the Business Process Composer Toolbar
  • 2.4.2 Introduction to the Business Process Composer Welcome Page
    • 2.4.2.1 Project Views
    • 2.4.2.2 Project Browser
    • 2.4.2.3 Control Panel
    • 2.4.2.4 Search
  • 2.4.3 Introduction to the Business Process Composer Main Menu
  • 2.4.4 Introduction to the Project Welcome Page

3 Walkthrough: Creating a Basic BPM Application

• 3.1 Setting Up a BPM Project
  • 3.1.1 Login to Business Process Composer
  • 3.1.2 Create and Open a BPM Project
  • 3.1.3 Create a BPMN Process
  • 3.1.4 Save Your BPM Project
• 3.2 Modeling a BPMN Process
  • 3.2.1 Open the Business Process
  • 3.2.2 Add a User Task
  • 3.2.3 Save Your Project
  • 3.2.4 Create a New Role
  • 3.2.5 Add a Business Rule Task
  • 3.2.6 Add a New Swimlane and Create the Manager Role
  • 3.2.7 Add an Exclusive Gateway
  • 3.2.8 Add the Approve Request User Task
  • 3.2.9 Add an Additional Exclusive Gateway
  • 3.2.10 Add a Service Task to Save the Travel Request in a Database
  • 3.2.11 Add a Sequence Flow to Handle Rejected Travel Requests
  • 3.2.12 Edit and Add Sequence Flows for Default Approval
  • 3.2.13 Create a Project Snapshot
• 3.3 Implementing a BPMN Process - Defining User Interaction
  • 3.3.1 Create and Open a Human Task
  • 3.3.2 Create a Web Form
  • 3.3.3 Add Basic Controls to Your Web Form
  • 3.3.4 Add a Tabs Control to Your Web Form
  • 3.3.5 Add Additional Controls to Each Tab
  • 3.3.6 Test Your Web Form
  • 3.3.7 Add a Form Rule to Calculate the Total Expense
  • 3.3.8 Add a Form Rule to Add Dynamic Behavior to Your Form
  • 3.3.9 Add a Form Rule to Dynamically Populate a List of Options
• 3.4 Implementing a BPMN Process - Creating a Business Rule
  • 3.4.1 Create Business Objects
  • 3.4.2 Create a New Business Rule and Define Input and Output Data Objects
  • 3.4.3 Create and Configure a Bucketset
  • 3.4.4 Create and Configure a Decision Table
  • 3.4.5 Assign the Business Rule to the Business Rule Task
• 3.5 Implementing a BPMN Process - Defining a Service
• 3.6 Defining the Data Used by Your Process
  • 3.6.1 Create Data Objects
  • 3.6.2 Define Expressions and Conditions
  • 3.6.3 Define Data Associations

Part II Modeling and Testing Business Processes

4 Working with BPM Projects

• 4.1 Introduction to Oracle BPM Projects
  • 4.1.1 Introduction to Project Components and Resources
    • 4.1.1.1 Editable Project Resources
    • 4.1.1.2 The Business Catalog
    • 4.1.1.3 Business Catalog Components that Can Be Edited or Created
  • 4.1.2 Introduction to the Oracle BPM Repository
• 4.2 Introduction to the Project Welcome Page
  • 4.2.1 The Project Information Panel
  • 4.2.2 The Recent Activity Panel
  • 4.2.3 Introduction to the Project Component Pane
  • 4.2.4 Introduction to the Quickstart Menu
  • 4.2.5 Introduction to the Oracle Business Process Composer Editors
    • 4.2.5.1 Process Editor
    • 4.2.5.2 Activity Guide Editor
    • 4.2.5.3 Human Task Editor
    • 4.2.5.4 Business Rules Editor
    • 4.2.5.5 Data Associations Editor
    • 4.2.5.6 Expression Editor
  • 4.2.6 Introduction to the Supporting Browsers and Editors
    • 4.2.6.1 Project and Process Validation Browser
    • 4.2.6.2 Documentation Editor
    • 4.2.6.3 Approval Workflow Browser
• 4.3 Introduction to Project Sharing and Collaboration
  • 4.3.1 Private and Public Projects
  • 4.3.2 Edit Mode
  • 4.3.3 Project Roles
• 4.4 Creating and Working with Projects
  • 4.4.1 How to Access the Project Welcome Page
  • 4.4.2 How to Create a New Project
  • 4.4.3 How to Open a Project Using the Application Welcome Page
  • 4.4.4 How to Open a Project Using the Main Menu
  • 4.4.5 How to Share a Project with Other Users
  • 4.4.6 How to Edit a Shared Project
  • 4.4.7 How to Save Changes to a Project
  • 4.4.8 How to Discard Changes to a Project
  • 4.4.9 How to Validate a Project
  • 4.4.10 How to Close a Project
  • 4.4.11 How to View the History of Changes Made to a Project
  • 4.4.12 How to View and Edit Project Properties
  • 4.4.13 How to Mark a Project as a Favorite
• 4.5 Using Guided Business Processes to Create Project Milestones
  • 4.5.1 Introduction to Guided Business Processes
    • 4.5.1.1 Introduction to Activity Guides and Milestones
  • 4.5.2 How to Configure the Activity Guide and Create Project Milestones
  • 4.5.3 How to Generate a Process Report for Your Project
• 4.6 Defining the Roles Used in a Project
  • 4.6.1 Introduction to Project Roles
  • 4.6.2 How to Create Project Roles

5 Working with Processes and the Process Editor

• 5.1 Introduction to Business Processes
• 5.2 Introduction to the Process Editor
  • 5.2.1 Introduction to the Process Editor Toolbar
  • 5.2.2 Introduction to the Process Editor Canvas
  • 5.2.3 Introduction to the BPMN Component Palette
  • 5.2.4 Introduction to the Business Catalog
• 5.3 Working with Business Processes
  • 5.3.1 How to Create a New Business Process
  • 5.3.2 How to Open a Business Process
  • 5.3.3 How to Delete a Business Process
    • 5.3.3.1 What You Need to Know About Deleting a Business Process
• 5.4 Working with Flow Elements
  • 5.4.1 How to Add a Flow Object from the Component Palette
  • 5.4.2 How to Cut, Copy, or Delete a Flow Object
  • 5.4.3 How to Paste a Flow Object in a Process
  • 5.4.4 How to Add a Sequence Flow to a Process
  • 5.4.5 How to Delete a Sequence Flow
    • 5.4.5.1 What You Need to Know About Deleting a Sequence Flow
  • 5.4.6 How to Edit the Properties of a Flow Object
  • 5.4.7 How to Assign a Custom Icon to a Flow Object
• 5.5 Working with Business Catalog Components
  • 5.5.1 How to Assign a Business Catalog Component to a Flow Object
  • 5.5.2 How to Create New Human Tasks in the Business Catalog
• 5.6 Working with Draft Processes
  • 5.6.1 Introduction to Draft Processes
  • 5.6.2 How to Mark a Flow Object as Draft
• 5.7 Documenting Your Process
  • 5.7.1 Introduction to the Documentation Editor
    • 5.7.1.1 Inserting Links in Your Documentation
  • 5.7.2 How to Add Documentation to Your Process
  • 5.7.3 How to Add Notes to a Process
• 5.8 Importing and Exporting Process Models
  • 5.8.1 Importing Process Models into Oracle BPM
  • 5.8.2 Exporting BPMN Processes to Oracle Tutor

6 Simulating Process Behavior

• 6.1 Introduction to Simulations
  • 6.1.1 Simulation Models and Simulation Definitions
  • 6.1.2 Simulation Parameters
    • 6.1.2.1 General Simulation Definition Parameters
    • 6.1.2.2 Simulation Model Parameters
    • 6.1.2.3 Resource Parameters
    • 6.1.2.4 Start Event Parameters
    • 6.1.2.5 Activity Parameters
• 6.2 Creating and Running a Simulation
• 6.3 Working with Simulation Definitions
  • 6.3.1 How to Create a Simulation Definition
  • 6.3.2 What Happens When You Create a Simulation Definition
  • 6.3.3 How to Edit a Simulation Definition
  • 6.3.4 How to Add a Simulation Model to a Simulation Definition
• 6.4 Working with Simulation Models
  • 6.4.1 How to Create a New Simulation Model
  • 6.4.2 How to Edit a Simulation Model
• 6.5 Running Simulations
  • 6.5.1 How to Run a Simulation
  • 6.5.2 What Happens When You Run a Simulation
• 6.6 Analyzing the Results of a Simulation
  • 6.6.1 How to Analyze the Results of a Simulation Using a Chart

7 Using Process Player

• 7.1 Introduction to Process Player
  • 7.1.1 How Process Player Handles the Flow Objects of Your Process
  • 7.1.2 Enabling Process Player in Business Process Composer
• 7.2 Using Process Player to Test the Behavior of Business Processes
  • 7.2.1 How to Access Process Player
  • 7.2.2 How to Map the Roles Defined in Your Process to Users in Your Organization
  • 7.2.3 How to Use Process Player to Run a Business Process

8 Working with the Project Life Cycle

• 8.1 Importing and Exporting Projects
  • 8.1.1 How to Import a Project from Your Local File System
  • 8.1.2 How to Export a Project to Your Local File System
• 8.2 Introduction to BPM Project Templates
  • 8.2.1 Introduction to Edit Policies
    • 8.2.1.1 Process Level Edit Policies
    • 8.2.1.2 Component Level Edit Policies
  • 8.2.2 About Using Data Objects and Variables in Project Templates
• 8.3 Working with Project Templates
• 8.4 Working with Project Snapshots
  • 8.4.1 How to Create a New Project Snapshot
  • 8.4.2 How to View the Contents of a Project Snapshot
  • 8.4.3 How to Return to the Active Version of a Project
  • 8.4.4 How to Delete a Project Snapshot
  • 8.4.5 How to Export a Project Snapshot
  • 8.4.6 How to Deploy a Project Snapshot

Part III Defining How Users Interact with Your Business Processes

9 Working with Web Forms

• 9.1 Introduction to Forms in Oracle BPM
  • 9.1.1 Introduction to Web Forms
  • 9.1.2 Form First and Data First Design
• 9.2 Introduction to the Web Forms Designer
  • 9.2.1 Introduction to the Web Forms Component Palette
  • 9.2.2 Introduction to the Web Form Editor Toolbar
  • 9.2.3 Introduction to the Property Editor
  • 9.2.4 Introduction to the Data Source Panel
  • 9.2.5 Introduction to the Form Canvas
• 9.3 Introduction to Web Form Controls
  • 9.3.1 Input Controls
    • 9.3.1.1 Text
    • 9.3.1.2 TextArea
    • 9.3.1.3 Date, Time, Date/Time
    • 9.3.1.4 Email
    • 9.3.1.5 Money
    • 9.3.1.6 Phone
    • 9.3.1.7 Quantity
    • 9.3.1.8 Number
  • 9.3.2 Selection Controls
    • 9.3.2.1 Dropdown
    • 9.3.2.2 Radio
    • 9.3.2.3 Checkbox
    • 9.3.2.4 BooleanCheckbox
  • 9.3.3 Group Controls
    • 9.3.3.1 Sections
    • 9.3.3.2 Tabs
    • 9.3.3.3 Panels
    • 9.3.3.4 Tables
    • 9.3.3.5 Repeats
  • 9.3.4 Other Controls
    • 9.3.4.1 Message Control
    • 9.3.4.2 Link Control
    • 9.3.4.3 Button Control
    • 9.3.4.4 Image Control
• 9.4 Introduction to Data Sources
  • 9.4.1 Web Form Controls Generated by Payload Data Types
  • 9.4.2 Modifying Web Form Controls Generated From Data Elements
    • 9.4.2.1 What You Can Edit Using the Web Form Editor
    • 9.4.2.2 What You Cannot Edit Using the Web Form Designer
  • 9.4.3 Introduction to the Display As Property
• 9.5 Walkthrough: Creating a Web Form Using the Form First Method
• 9.6 Walkthrough: Creating a Web Form Using the Data First Method
• 9.7 Working with Web Forms
  • 9.7.1 How to Add Controls to a Web Form
  • 9.7.2 How to Add Controls Based on Data Sources
  • 9.7.3 How to Show Which Web Controls Were Created from a Data Source
  • 9.7.4 How to Edit the Properties of a Web Form and Web Form Controls
  • 9.7.5 How to Delete a Web Form
  • 9.7.6 How to Remove a Control from a Web Form
  • 9.7.7 How to Test a Web Form

10 Working with Web Form Rules

• 10.1 Introduction to Form Rules
  • 10.1.1 Form Rule Javascript Syntax
    • 10.1.1.1 Control Name
    • 10.1.1.2 Form Rule Identifiers
    • 10.1.1.3 Strings and Numbers
    • 10.1.1.4 Writing Conditions
    • 10.1.1.5 Select Controls
    • 10.1.1.6 Initial Control State
    • 10.1.1.7 Form Rules and Repeating Controls
  • 10.1.2 Using Dynamic Content in Form Rules
    • 10.1.2.1 Dynamic Content
    • 10.1.2.2 Reusing Dynamic Content
  • 10.1.3 Using Data and Built-in Methods in a Form Rule
    • 10.1.3.1 Built-in Data
    • 10.1.3.2 Built-in Methods
  • 10.1.4 Understanding How Form Rules Work at Runtime
    • 10.1.4.1 When are Form Rules Executed?
    • 10.1.4.2 Infinite Loops
  • 10.1.5 Debugging Form Rules
    • 10.1.5.1 Debugging Duplicate Control Names
    • 10.1.5.2 Form Rule Profiling
• 10.2 Working with Form Rules
  • 10.2.1 How to Create a Form Rule
  • 10.2.2 How to Test a Form Rule

11 Working with Human Tasks

• 11.1 Introduction to Human Tasks
  • 11.1.1 Introduction to Participant and Routing Types
    • 11.1.1.1 Participant Types
    • 11.1.1.2 Routing Types
    • 11.1.1.3 Outcome
  • 11.1.2 Introduction to Participant Assignment
  • 11.1.3 Introduction to Duration
• 11.2 Introduction to the Human Task Editor
• 11.3 Working with Human Tasks
  • 11.3.1 Walkthrough: Creating and Configuring a Human Task
  • 11.3.2 How to Create New Human Task
  • 11.3.3 How to Open a Human Task
  • 11.3.4 How to Configure Basic Task Properties
  • 11.3.5 How to Configure the Deadline (Duration) for a Human Task
  • 11.3.6 How to Change the Default Participant
  • 11.3.7 How to Add Participants and Routing to a Human Task
  • 11.3.8 How to Assign Users, Groups, and Roles to a Participant
  • 11.3.9 *How to Configure the Outcome for Parallel Routing
  • 11.3.10 How to Create and Configure the Data Payload for a Human Task
  • 11.3.11 How to Specify the Presentation of a Human Task
• 11.4 Assigning a Human Task to a User Task

Part IV Implementing and Deploying a BPM Project

12 Handling Data in Your Business Processes

• 12.1 About Handling Data Used by Your Business Processes
  • 12.1.1 How to Define the Data Used by an Oracle BPM Application
• 12.2 Introduction to Data Objects
  • 12.2.1 Introduction to Basic and Complex Data Objects
  • 12.2.2 Introduction to Process and Project Data Objects
    • 12.2.2.1 Process Data Objects
    • 12.2.2.2 Project Data Objects
• 12.3 Working with Data Objects
  • 12.3.1 How to Create a Data Object
  • 12.3.2 How to Edit or Delete a Data Object
  • 12.3.3 What Happens When You Delete or Edit a Data Object
• 12.4 Introduction to Business Objects
• 12.5 Working with Business Objects
  • 12.5.1 How to Create a Business Object Manually
  • 12.5.2 How to Create a Business Objects Based on an XML Schema Definition (XSD)
  • 12.5.3 What Happens When You Create a Business Object
  • 12.5.4 How to Edit and Delete a Business Object
• 12.6 Introduction to Data Associations
  • 12.6.1 Introduction to the Data Associations Editor
  • 12.6.2 How to Configure Data Associations for a Flow Object
• 12.7 Introduction to Expressions
  • 12.7.1 Introduction to the Expression Editor
  • 12.7.2 Types of Expressions
  • 12.7.3 Simple Expressions
    • 12.7.3.1 Operator Types
    • 12.7.3.2 Operator Precedence
• 12.8 Working with Expressions
  • 12.8.1 How to Define a Simple Expression for a Conditional Sequence Flow
  • 12.8.2 How to Define a Simple Expression in Data Associations
• 12.9 Working with Business Indicators and Counter Marks
  • 12.9.1 Introduction to Business Indicators and Counters
  • 12.9.2 Introduction to Counter Marks
  • 12.9.3 How to Add a New Counter Mark to a Process
  • 12.9.4 How to Delete a Counter Mark
• 12.10 Measuring Process Performance Using Measurement Marks
  • 12.10.1 How to Add a Measurement Mark to a Process

13 Using Oracle Business Rules

• 13.1 Introduction to Oracle Business Rules
  • 13.1.1 Introduction to Rule Conditions
  • 13.1.2 Introduction to Rule Actions
  • 13.1.3 Introduction to Decision Tables
  • 13.1.4 Introduction to Facts and Bucketsets
  • 13.1.5 Introduction to Rulesets
  • 13.1.6 Introduction to Decision Functions
  • 13.1.7 Introduction to Decision Points
  • 13.1.8 Introduction to Dictionaries
• 13.2 Introduction to the Business Process Composer Rules Editor
• 13.3 Creating and Editing Business Rules
  • 13.3.1 How to Create a New Business Rule
  • 13.3.2 How to Open a Business Rule
  • 13.3.3 How to Add a Bucketset
  • 13.3.4 How to Edit an Existing Bucketset
  • 13.3.5 How to View Globals in the Oracle Rules Dictionary
  • 13.3.6 How to Add a Rule to a Ruleset
• 13.4 Assigning a Rule to a Business Rules Task
• 13.5 Editing Oracle Business Rules at Run Time

14 Communicating with other Processes and Services

• 14.1 Defining Process Input and Output
  • 14.1.1 How to Define the Input Arguments for a Process
  • 14.1.2 How to Define Data Associations for a Message Start Event
  • 14.1.3 How to Define the Output Arguments for a Process
  • 14.1.4 How to Define Data Association for a Message End Event
• 14.2 Defining Conversations
  • 14.2.1 Introduction to Conversations
  • 14.2.2 Working with Conversations
    • 14.2.2.1 How to define a conversation
    • 14.2.2.2 How to set the default conversation
    • 14.2.2.3 How to define a conversation for a BPMN flow object
    • 14.2.2.4 How to view a collaboration diagram
• 14.3 Working with Services
  • 14.3.1 How to Create New Services in the Business Catalog

15 Deploying a BPM Project

• 15.1 Configuring Approval Workflow for a Project
  • 15.1.1 Introduction to Approval Workflow
  • 15.1.2 Configuring Approval Workflow
    • 15.1.2.1 How to Configure Approval Workflow for a Project
• 15.2 Deploying a Project
  • 15.2.1 Who Can Deploy Projects?
  • 15.2.2 How to Deploy a Project to Run Time
  • 15.2.3 How to Deploy a Project Using an Approval Workflow
  • 15.2.4 How to Edit a Deployed Project
  • 15.2.5 How to Generate a Project SAR File
  • 15.2.6 How to Generate a Deployment Plan

Part V Performing Administrative Tasks Using Business Process Composer

16 Performing Administrative Tasks

• 16.1 Introduction to Business Process Composer Administration
• 16.2 How to Assign Global Roles
• 16.3 Managing Projects and Project Templates
  • 16.3.1 How to Delete a Project or Project Template
  • 16.3.2 How to Configure Sharing for a Project
  • 16.3.3 How to Release the Lock on a Shared Project
  • 16.3.4 How to Import a Project Template
• 16.4 How to Define Administrator Credentials for Process Player
  • 16.4.1 How to Enable Process Player
  • 16.4.2 What Happens When You Enable Process Player

A BPMN Flow Object Reference

• A.1 Using Swimlanes to Organize Your Process
  • A.1.1 Introduction to Roles
    • A.1.1.1 Roles in Context
  • A.1.2 Introduction to Swimlanes
    • A.1.2.1 Swimlanes in Context
  • A.1.3 How to Add Roles and Swimlanes to Your Process
  • A.1.4 How to Edit Swimlane Properties
  • A.1.5 Sharing Roles Between Business Process Composer and BPM Studio
• A.2 Defining the Start and End Point of a Process
  • A.2.1 Introduction to Start and End Events
    • A.2.1.1 Specifying the Start Events for Different Types of Processes
    • A.2.1.2 Using Multiple Start Events in a Process
    • A.2.1.3 Using Multiple End Events in a Process
  • A.2.2 Defining How a Process Instance is Triggered
  • A.2.3 Introduction to the None Start Event
    • A.2.3.1 The None Start Event in Context
    • A.2.3.2 Data Associations
  • A.2.4 Introduction to the Message Start Event
    • A.2.4.1 The Message Start Event in Context
    • A.2.4.2 Using Process Input and Output Arguments
  • A.2.5 Introduction to the Signal Start Event
    • A.2.5.1 The Signal Start Event in Context
  • A.2.6 Introduction to the Timer Start Event
  • A.2.7 Introduction to the Error Start Event
  • A.2.8 Introduction to the None End Event
    • A.2.8.1 The None End Event in Context
  • A.2.9 Introduction to the Error End Event
  • A.2.10 Introduction to the Message End Event
  • A.2.11 Introduction to the Terminate End Event
• A.3 Adding User Interaction to Your Process
  • A.3.1 Introduction to Human Workflow
    • A.3.1.1 Introduction to Human Tasks
  • A.3.2 Introduction to the User Task
    • A.3.2.1 The User Task in Context
    • A.3.2.2 Using Interactive Activities
    • A.3.2.3 Using the User Task in Project Templates
  • A.3.3 Introduction to the Manual Task
    • A.3.3.1 The Manual Task in Context
  • A.3.4 Introduction to the Update Task
• A.4 Communicating With Other Processes and Services
  • A.4.1 Introduction to the Service Task
    • A.4.1.1 The Service Task in Context
    • A.4.1.2 Implementing Reusable Services in Project Templates
  • A.4.2 Introduction to the Notification Task
  • A.4.3 Introduction to the Call Activity
  • A.4.4 Introduction to the Send Task
    • A.4.4.1 The Send Task in Context
  • A.4.5 Introduction to the Receive Task
    • A.4.5.1 The Receive Task in Context
    • A.4.5.2 Starting a Process with the Receive Task
  • A.4.6 Using the Send and Receive Tasks to Communicate Between Processes
  • A.4.7 Introduction to the Message Throw Event
  • A.4.8 Introduction to the Message Catch Event
  • A.4.9 Using Message Throw and Catch Events to Communicate Between Processes
• A.5 Adding Business Logic Using Oracle Business Rules
  • A.5.1 Introduction to Oracle Business Rules
  • A.5.2 Introduction to the Business Rule Task
    • A.5.2.1 The Business Rule Task in Context
• A.6 Controlling Process Flow Using Sequence Flows
  • A.6.1 Introduction to Sequence Flows
  • A.6.2 Introduction to Unconditional Sequence Flows
  • A.6.3 Introduction to Conditional Sequence Flows
  • A.6.4 Introduction to Default Sequence Flows
• A.7 Controlling Process Flow Using Gateways
  • A.7.1 Introduction to Gateways
    • A.7.1.1 Split-Merge Pairs
  • A.7.2 Introduction to the Exclusive Gateway
    • A.7.2.1 The Exclusive Gateway in Context
    • A.7.2.2 Splitting and Merging Exclusive Gateways
  • A.7.3 Introduction to the Inclusive Gateway
    • A.7.3.1 Splitting and Merging Inclusive Gateways
  • A.7.4 Introduction to the Parallel Gateway
    • A.7.4.1 The Parallel Gateway in Context
    • A.7.4.2 Splitting and Merging Parallel Gateways
  • A.7.5 Introduction to the Complex Gateway
  • A.7.6 Introduction to the Event-based Gateway
    • A.7.6.1 Starting a Process with an Event-Based Gateway
• A.8 Controlling Process Flow Using Intermediate Events
  • A.8.1 Introduction to Intermediate Events
  • A.8.2 Introduction to the Timer Catch Event
  • A.8.3 Introduction to the Error Catch Event
• A.9 Using Subprocesses in Oracle BPM
  • A.9.1 Introduction to Reusable Processes (Reusable Subprocesses)
  • A.9.2 Introduction to Embedded Subprocesses (Inline Subprocesses)
    • A.9.2.1 Embedded Subprocesses and Sequence Flows
    • A.9.2.2 Embedded Subprocesses in Context
    • A.9.2.3 Looping Embedded Subprocesses
  • A.9.3 Introduction to Event Subprocesses (Event Handlers)
• A.10 Changing the Value of Data Objects in Your Process
  • A.10.1 Introduction to the Script Task
    • A.10.1.1 The Script Task in Context

B BPMN Flow Object Property Reference

• B.1 Common Properties
  • B.1.1 Basic Properties
  • B.1.2 Implementation Properties
• B.2 Interactive Properties
  • B.2.1 Interactive Activities
  • B.2.2 Manual Task
• B.3 Activity Properties
  • B.3.1 Service Task
    • B.3.1.1 Implementation Properties
  • B.3.2 Send Task
    • B.3.2.1 Implementation Properties
  • B.3.3 Receive Task
    • B.3.3.1 Implementation Properties
  • B.3.4 Business Rule Task
    • B.3.4.1 Implementation Properties
  • B.3.5 Script Task
  • B.3.6 Call Activity
    • B.3.6.1 Implementation Properties
  • B.3.7 Subprocesses
    • B.3.7.1 Implementation Properties
  • B.3.8 Inline Handlers
• B.4 Gateway Properties
  • B.4.1 Exclusive Gateway
  • B.4.2 Inclusive Gateway
  • B.4.3 Parallel Gateway
  • B.4.4 Complex Gateway
  • B.4.5 Event-Based Gateway
• B.5 Event Properties
  • B.5.1 The None Start Event
  • B.5.2 The Message Start Event
    • B.5.2.1 Implementation Properties
  • B.5.3 The Timer Start Event
    • B.5.3.1 Implementation Properties
  • B.5.4 The Signal Start Event
    • B.5.4.1 Implementation Properties
  • B.5.5 The Error Start Event
    • B.5.5.1 Implementation Properties
  • B.5.6 None Catch Event
  • B.5.7 Message Catch Event
    • B.5.7.1 Implementation Properties
  • B.5.8 Timer Catch Event
    • B.5.8.1 Implementation Properties
  • B.5.9 Error Catch Event
    • B.5.9.1 Implementation Properties
  • B.5.10 Message Throw Event
    • B.5.10.1 Implementation Properties
  • B.5.11 Signal Throw Event
    • B.5.11.1 Implementation Properties
  • B.5.12 None End Event
  • B.5.13 Message End Event
    • B.5.13.1 Implementation Properties
  • B.5.14 Signal End Event
    • B.5.14.1 Implementation Properties
  • B.5.15 Error End Event
    • B.5.15.1 Implementation Properties
  • B.5.16 Terminate End Event
• B.6 Measurement Mark Properties
• B.7 Sequence Flow Properties
  • B.7.1 Default Sequence Flow
  • B.7.2 Normal Sequence Flow
  • B.7.3 Conditional Sequence Flow

C Web Form and Web Form Control Property Reference

• C.1 Web Form Properties
  • C.1.1 Settings Tab
  • C.1.2 Style Tab
• C.2 Web Form Control Properties
  • C.2.1 Web Form Control Properties - Settings Tab
  • C.2.2 Web Form Control Properties - Style Tab

D Web Form Rules Examples

• D.1 Calculate a Total
• D.2 Show/Hide a Billing Address
• D.3 Show/Hide Message
• D.4 Enable/disable a question
• D.5 Compute Subtotals for Repeating Items
• D.6 Compute an Invoice Total
• D.7 Textarea Max Length
• D.8 Textarea Newline and Break
• D.9 Dropdown Options
• D.10 Finding a Selected Options Index
• D.11 Synchronized Selects
• D.12 Clearing Dropdown Options
• D.13 Default Option
• D.14 Checkbox Options - Assigning Color to Checkbox Choices
• D.15 Checkbox Options - Making a Control Visible/Invisible Based on Checkbox Choices
• D.16 Checkbox Initialization
• D.17 Displaying Selected Checkbox Labels
• D.18 Repeating Checkboxes
• D.19 Display a Message Control Inside a Repeat Control
• D.20 String Concatenation
• D.21 Dynamic Labels, Help, Hints
• D.22 Visible/Invisible
• D.23 Visible/Invisible Section
• D.24 Select Tab
• D.25 Next Tab
• D.26 Expand/Collapse Section
• D.27 Security Subject Information
• D.28 Multiple Choice
• D.29 Dynamic Options
• D.30 Triggers and Dynamic Options
• D.31 Value Change and Dynamic Options
• D.32 Dynamic Control Initialization
• D.33 Verify User
• D.34 Calculate Net Worth
• D.35 Dates and Times
  • D.35.1 Duration
  • D.35.2 Today's Date and Time
  • D.35.3 Date/Time Stamp
  • D.35.4 Invalid if Before Today
  • D.35.5 Date no more then 14 days from Today
  • D.35.6 Date no more then 30 days ago
  • D.35.7 Central Timezone adjusted for Daylight Savings
  • D.35.8 Hours >= 4 and <= 6 Apart
  • D.35.9 Times
• D.36 Tenants, Roles, Users
• D.37 Repeat Item Added
• D.38 Repeat Item Added - Collapse Other Items
• D.39 Tables
• D.40 form.load
• D.41 form.unload
• D.42 Unique ID
• D.43 Repeat Item Initialization
• D.44 Repeat ItemAdded by Init Doc
• D.45 Search Popup

E Preparing Processes for Import into BPMN

• E.1 Preparing a Visio File to Import as a BPMN Process
  • E.1.1 How to Update VisioUserMap.xml
  • E.1.2 Valid BPMN Element Values
  • E.1.3 BPMN Element Attributes
• E.2 How to Customize XPDL Import Using XSL Doc
• E.3 Preparing an XPDL File to be Imported as a BPMN Process
  • E.3.1 Handling Namespaces
  • E.3.2 Handling Relative Coordinates
  • E.3.3 Handling Extended Attributes
  • E.3.4 Handling redrawConnections
  • E.3.5 Handling isRelativeObjectCoordinates
  • E.3.6 Removing Invisible Elements
  • E.3.7 Handling the Orientation Attribute
  • E.3.8 Specifying the View Type for Subprocesses
  • E.3.9 Handling the Object Pin
  • E.3.10 Modifying the Height and Width of Activities
  • E.3.11 Modifying the Height and Width of Lanes
  • E.3.12 Modifying the Height and Width of Pools
  • E.3.13 Location of Activities
  • E.3.14 Including Missing Elements
  • E.3.15 Checking the Correctness of Activities

F The Sales Quote Example Process

• F.1 Introduction to Business Process Management Notation (BPMN)
  • F.1.1 What is Business Process Management Notation (BPMN)
  • F.1.2 Business Processes
    • F.1.2.1 Process Instances
    • F.1.2.2 Process Tokens
  • F.1.3 Flow Objects
  • F.1.4 Data Objects
• F.2 Introduction to the Sales Quote Example
  • F.2.1 Breakdown of the Sales Quote Example
    • F.2.1.1 Initiate Sales Quote
    • F.2.1.2 Determine Business Practice Review
    • F.2.1.3 Approve Quote
    • F.2.1.4 Approvals Outcome