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Naming Conventions for Workflow Processes and Process Properties

When naming workflow processes, the combination of workflow process name and version must be unique. That is, you can have two workflow processes of the same name as long as their version numbers are different.

Names given to workflow process steps and process properties must be unique as well, within a workflow process. When you create a new process step, in its name field it is automatically given a unique number that you can change. If you change the name, the new name must be unique from the names of the other steps in the process.

Names for workflow processes, steps, and properties should not contain any characters that can form parts of expressions or that have special meaning within the Siebel application or the underlying database platform.

Reserved symbols that cannot be used in naming of workflow processes, steps, and properties are the following: