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Guest access lets users navigate among the top-level Status Monitor pages, including the Activity History page in the Administrator Monitor or Notification History page in the Self-Service Monitor, Status Diagram page, Participant Responses page, and Workflow Details page. Users can also drill down from the top-level pages to related detail or action pages, such as navigating from the Notification History page to the Cancel page. Additionally, locator links, also known as breadcrumbs, let users navigate from the Status Monitor back to the calling application. However, users cannot navigate from the Status Monitor to other parts of Oracle Workflow.

With guest access, users are fully authenticated. However, in this mode you programmatically control which workflow process users can view and whether users can perform administrative operations in the Status Monitor, rather than having these privileges controlled by the workflow administrator setting in the Workflow Configuration page.

When you provide guest access to the Status Monitor from your application, you must specify a workflow item type and item key to automatically query. Guest access does not include search capabilities, so users can only view the workflow process you specify. You can choose to initially display the specified workflow in either the Activity History page in the Administrator Monitor or Notification History page in the Self-Service Monitor, the Status Diagram page, or the Participant Responses page. If you do not specify an initial page, the workflow is initially displayed in the Activity History page in the Administrator Monitor or Notification History page in the Self-Service Monitor.

Note: The workflow is only displayed if the specified item type, item key, and administrator mode are valid. Otherwise, an error message is displayed. The Workflow tabs are not displayed, so the user cannot navigate to any other part of Oracle Workflow.

You must also set the administrator mode to determine whether to grant the user privileges to perform administrative operations within the Status Monitor. You can choose one of the following options:

• Never grant administrator privileges, regardless of whether the user belongs to the workflow administrator role specified in the Workflow Configuration page. This option is the default if you do not specify an administrator mode.

• Always grant administrator privileges, regardless of whether the user belongs to the workflow administrator role specified in the Workflow Configuration page.

• Check whether the user belongs to the workflow administrator role specified in the Workflow Configuration page and grant administrator privileges accordingly.