Business processes can be designed with or without workflows. A workflow specifies how a business process should proceed, from start to finish. Workflows define how records are routed and govern the behavior of each step in the business process. Each step uses the forms that were designed for it in uDesigner.
Most business processes will include a workflow or workflows; however, some business processes have a single purpose of storing data. These business processes are called non-workflow BPs. An example of a non-workflow BP is one or more forms that record contact and other general information about a company.
Once a workflow BP record is created by using any workflow schema (unique combination of Setup Name + Workflow Name), the workflow record continues to reference the workflow schema even if the status of the workflow schema has been set to Inactive.
This condition includes workflow records that are in the following statuses:
- Draft
- Initiation Step (I-Step)
- Also, this condition includes any workflow record at any other step in the workflow.
If there is an Active BP Template, then the template continues to create records referencing the Inactive workflow schema. For instructions on creating a template, see Creating BP Templates and Schedule BP Creation.