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Workflow Deployment Architecture


After defining and testing your workflow process, the workflow is deployed.

Deploying is the act of performing a two step process:

  1. Publishing. Reading object definitions for a workflow process that exist in the Siebel repository tables then writing those definitions along with deployment parameters into the run-time tables.
  2. Activating. Making the workflow process available for use in the Siebel client.

Figure 6 illustrates the relationship between Siebel Tools and the Siebel client when deploying a workflow process.

Figure 6. Workflow Deployment Architecture

Architectural components for workflow deployment include:

  1. The workflow process is marked Completed for deployment.
  2. The workflow process is read from the repository.
  3. When activated, the workflow process is written to the run-time tables.
  4. Some parameters of the deployed workflow process can be modified in the Siebel client.

To deploy a workflow process, it is not necessary to compile the SRF, nor is a merge required. Workflow components and definitions are defined as Siebel Tools objects and are stored in the Siebel Tools repository. Before you can run a workflow process as a server task or from the Siebel client, you must first publish the workflow process from Siebel Tools, then activate the workflow process from the Siebel client.

NOTE:  If you use the Publish/Activate button rather than the Publish button to publish the workflow process in Siebel Tools, it is not necessary to separately activate the workflow in the Siebel client.

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