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Considering a Seed Workflow Process

This task is a step in Process of Planning a Workflow Process.

Before building a new workflow process, you should determine that a seed workflow process does not already exist that can meet your business requirements. A seed workflow process is a workflow process that comes predefined with the product.

Workflows that appear in the Workflow Processes Object List Editor (OBLE) immediately after Tools is installed, prior to modifications being made, are seed workflows. By default, a seed workflow process is in a Completed state with a version number of 0.

Since many seed workflows are used at run time to execute some of the base functionality of the Siebel application, they should not be edited. To use a modified form of a seed workflow, you can create a copy of the seed workflow then edit the new version or the copy. After revising a seed workflow, the workflow's version changes from 0 to 1. You then modify this version to suit your business needs, publish it, and activate it. Activating a workflow process creates the appropriate run-time events defined within the process.

For more information, seeModifying a Workflow Process.