About the Synthetic Event

A synthetic event is a runtime event that controls navigation for a Workflow Process. Examples of synthetic events include Suspend, Resume, Next, and Back. To control navigation, the Workflow Engine interprets these synthetic events to navigate the user backward or forward through a Workflow Process, or to pause or resume a Workflow Process. For example, assume the Siebel client includes an Account Note view that includes an Account Entry Applet, and that this applet includes Back, Next, and Save synthetic events. These buttons allow the user to move forward or backward from the Account Note view, or to pause an interactive Workflow Process, and then return to it later to resume the Workflow Process.

You can define buttons, and then associate methods in the interactive Workflow Process to these buttons. For example, to configure the Next synthetic event, you associate a method with an outgoing connector on a user interact step. You set the method name of the synthetic event in the MethodInvoked property of the button control.