Scheduling Workflow Processes

You can run several types of processes to monitor workflow applications. These processes can perform a variety of monitoring tasks, such as checking worklists for timed-out work items. This PeopleSoft application delivers some workflow processes (discussed in the following section), and you can add your own.

Although the processes that PeopleSoft delivers are already defined in PeopleSoft Process Scheduler, you must submit Process Scheduler requests to specify when, where, and how often to run each process.

You must schedule Application Engine programs that you have built to facilitate batch workflow processing, including both programs that you created and several predefined Application Engine programs that are used to monitor workflow.

When you initiate a workflow, you usually set up these processes to run on a recurring schedule. If you do, you do not need to start the processes every time that you want them to run. You must restart them only if the schedule that you specify expires or to change their schedule.