Process Editor Activities Properties General Tab

Use the Process editor Properties view General tab to define values for the Activities drawer entities, including tasks, rules, delays, and join entities.

See "Designing Subprocesses" for information about subprocess properties. See "Designing Exception Paths" for more information about the redirect entity.

Field Use

Compensation

Appears for rule entity properties only.

Define how the OSM run-time environment evaluates the corresponding entity during compensation. Select Redo if the OSM server should undo the original operation and re-evaluate it. Select Do nothing if you do not want to OSM server to re-evaluate the entity operation.

Condition

Appears for delay and rule entity properties only.

Select the predefined rule which must evaluate to true for the rule or delay entity to transition. For timer delay entities, Oracle recommends selecting a custom order rule rather than using the default null_rule.

See "Defining Order Rules" for more information about order rules.

Description

(Optional) Enter a description or the intended use for the corresponding task.

Display Name

Enter the name of the task that represents how an entity appears in the Task web client and throughout the Design Studio editors.

Join Type

Select All to have the task begin when all transitions flowing to the task have completed or select Any to have the task begin when any one transition flowing to the task has completed. Selecting Any will create one instance of the task for each incoming transition.

Process History

Select True if you want this task to appear in the Process History - Summary Table window in the Task web client. Otherwise, select False.

Reference

Displays the task associated with the selected task entity. To change the association, click the corresponding ellipsis button to access a list of Tasks.

X, Y coordinates

Indicates the present X and Y pixel coordinates for the task entity.