Key Components of Approval Workflows

Using approval workflows, you can define complex and multistage routing rules.

Here's a table listing the key components of a workflow:

Component	Description
Oracle SOA Suite Approval Management Extensions	Approval management extensions of the human workflow services in Oracle SOA Suite are essential for managing approval functionality in Oracle Cloud. These components enable several crucial tasks, including: Integration with Oracle HCM Cloud to determine approvers based on supervisory, job role, and position-based hierarchies defined in Oracle HCM Cloud. Offering a framework for creating approval rules applicable to various business documents, such as financial plan versions and invoice approvals. Selection of intricate routing patterns tailored to business processes, including sequential or parallel routing of documents to approvers.
Oracle Business Process Management (BPM)	Provides the BPM Worklist interface, which enables authorized business users to setup and configure approval workflows. When recipients review an approval request, the tool offers additional information as configured. For example, when an approver reviews a financial plan, BPM Worklist displays budget details associated with the plan so that the approver can review related information before approving or rejecting a request.
Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud (Oracle HCM Cloud)	Used for defining different employee hierarchies, such as supervisory, job-based, or position-based. Approval management extensions integrate with Oracle HCM Cloud to identify approver users when approval rules are set up based on Oracle HCM Cloud hierarchies.