How PSP Procedures Are Built

PSP procedures are created in the same way that standard workflows are created, in the Business Process Designer. The Process Designer is a user interface to help you arrange process objects. You access it from the Workflow Process object in Siebel Tools. For more information about building workflows, see Siebel Business Process Framework: Workflow Guide.

Like a standard workflow, a PSP procedure has a start step and an end step. A PSP procedure differs from a standard workflow in that the steps of a standard workflow perform actions, while the steps of a PSP procedure transform row sets in some way, as shown in the following figure. In the following figure, a set of product information that includes data on product IDs, names, and quantities is transformed into a new set of information that includes an additional product as well as pricing information for each product.

The PSP engine transforms row sets using the methods in the Row Set Transformation Toolkit business service. For more information about these methods, see Row Set Transformation Toolkit Methods.