Table 2. New Product Features in Siebel Business Process Designer Administration Guide, Version 7.7
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Workflow Process Designer See Using Process Designer in Siebel Tools. |
The Workflow Process Designer has been moved into Siebel Tools. The Process Designer in the run-time client has been made read-only to facilitate upgrade of pre-7.7 workflow processes. In the next release, the Process Designer will be removed from the run-time client. The Workflow Process object type is a new top-level object type in Siebel Tools. |
Workflow Process Simulator See Testing Workflow Processes with the Process Simulator. |
The Workflow Process Simulator has been removed from the run-time client and is now hosted in Siebel Tools. |
End-to-end business process framework See About Workflow Persistence and About Workflow Process Monitoring. |
Using enhanced persistence and monitoring, you can create a single workflow process to handle an entire business process transaction and coordinate between multiple short and long-running subprocesses. For example, rather than use short workflow processes that trigger every time a service request is updated and which together over time accomplish a larger business process, you can maintain the state in the service request record, and create a longer workflow with wait steps and persistence. This provides a comprehensive view from which you can maintain the workflow state and monitor the progress of the workflow at the instance level. |
New deployment scheme See Deploying Workflow Processes. |
This release includes a new deployment scheme that is used to move Workflow objects from the repository to the run-time environment. This does not require recompiling the SRF. |
Workflow modes See About Workflow Processing Modes. |
Workflow processes are now categorized into four different modes, each offering a specific set of capabilities and a specific quality of service:
- 7.0 Flow
- Long-Running Flow
- Interactive Flow
- Service Flow
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Interactive workflow processes See About Interactive Workflow Processes. |
You can configure your workflow processes to allow parking of interactive workflow processes in the user's Inbox. (Inbox is a single screen in Siebel eBusiness applications that shows all approval and notification items assigned end users regardless of the screen where the item originated.) You can configure free-flow navigation through the use of synthetic events, allowing the user to navigate backward and forward between views and to suspend and resume a process. |
User Interact step See About User Interact Steps. |
The User Interact step has been enhanced to take process properties as input arguments. In this way, you can dynamically set view names as you design your interactive workflow processes. |
Workflow User Event business service See About the Workflow User Event Business Service. |
A high-level event mechanism has been introduced for use by Siebel Workflow. This allows interaction as well as data transfer into workflow processes and instances. User events can be generated anywhere in the Siebel enterprise (wherever a Siebel business service is used) by calling the Workflow User Event business service. The event model also introduces the capability of correlation to ease communication with external entities. |
Long-Running workflow processes See About Long-Running Workflow Processes. |
You can now define collaborative workflows (such as approval processes) that route tasks across users. Long-running workflow processes use user events. |
Workflow persistence See About Workflow Persistence. |
Workflow persistence is now a quality of service and is not related to workflow monitoring. Workflow persistence is available to all workflow modes (as a configurable option) and is automatically enabled for long-running workflows. The 7.0 workflow persistence level and frequency settings are now replaced with a single flag: the Auto Persist flag. Monitoring of workflow processes is now a separate feature. |
Administration of workflow processes See Administering Workflow Processes in the Run-Time Client. |
There is now increased accountability of executed processes using the new Workflow Admin view. The Workflow Admin view allows the administrator to see the persisted status of workflow processes and provides recovery features. |
Monitoring of workflow processes See About Workflow Process Monitoring. |
There is now extended process monitoring, including enhanced error notification and execution tracing, using the new Workflow Instance Monitor view. The Workflow Instance Monitor view allows monitoring of all workflows (regardless of persistence setting). Monitoring level is a deployment parameter, not a design-time parameter. |
Recovery of process instances See Recovering Workflow Processes. |
Workflow processes marked as recoverable can be automatically and manually recovered after server failures. |
Palette Designer edit features See Using Process Designer in Siebel Tools. |
You can copy and paste Palette Designer shapes within a process. The Palette Designer also features:
- Properties window and Object List editor to enter process properties as well as input and output arguments
- Pop-up dialog box to enter conditions
- Zoom, copy drawing, print
- Show and hide labels and exception branches
- Define shape colors, lines, fill colors, fonts and sizes
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Seeded workflow processes See Upgrading Siebel Workflow. |
All seeded workflow processes have been moved from run-time tables to repository tables. |
