Understanding the Guided Process Framework

The Guided Process framework leverages PeopleTools Activity Guide technology, which enables you to define a series of actions or steps that users complete within a specific business process through a workcenter. For more information about activity guides, see the product documentation for PeopleTools: Portal Technology.

The Guided Process framework provides a simplified way to configure and implement activity guides and it has its own distinct table structure, components, and pages:

• The Define Guided Process Template component (GDP_TEMPLATE_TBL) enables you to create and modify guided processes.

  Note: When you create a guided process template, the system also creates a PeopleTools activity guide template using the PeopleTools Activity Guide application process integration (API).

• The Guided Process Clone Utility component (GDP_CLONE) enables you to clone existing guided processes that you can then reconfigure for a different business process.

• The Guided Process Summary pagelet (GDP_SUMMARY_PGLT) enables you to start new guided processes, continue existing guided processes, and view information about existing guided process instances. Users access this pagelet through dashboards to which it has been added.

• The Select Guided Process component (GDP_SELECT_PRCS) also enables you to start and continue guided processes.

  Note: You can use this component only for guided processes that have OPRID as the only context key field.