Accessing Workflow Activity Guides Through Custom Links

If you don’t want to use a workflow application to provide access to a workflow activity guide, you must provide users with custom navigation that enables them to reach the page in workflow activity guide mode.

The advantage of using custom navigation is that users can complete all of the steps in one session. They don’t have to go from the PeopleSoft system to a workflow notification and back to the PeopleSoft system.

The disadvantage of using a custom link is that you can’t rely on PeopleSoft to create the link for you; you must understand the proper link syntax and manually code the link in PeopleCode.

The following procedure outlines one approach to creating custom links.

To transfer a user to a workflow activity guide:

1. Set up a component with a single blank page.

   This page acts as a transfer point only; users accessing the page are automatically transferred elsewhere without ever seeing the blank page.

2. Add the component to a portal registry.

3. Transfer the user from the blank page to the workflow activity guide.