Create Your First Application (a Quick Start)
Ready to create your first application? If so, then here’s a good place to start. We’ll take you through the main steps—from creating the application to making it available to your end users. Along the way, you’ll learn new concepts, pick up some orientation and navigation tips, and complete the entire development life cycle for a travel approval application. And you’ll still have plenty to discover.
Create from a QuickStart App
The easiest way to create your first application is to start by creating one from a QuickStart App. A QuickStart App is a ready-to-use application with all the implementation details included for you to play, test, and activate the application.
- Open the Process Applications page.
- Create an application.
- Open the application you just created.
Customize the QuickStart App
In the Request Travel application you just created, let’s look at how you can customize the application. Although applications created from QuickStart Apps are ready to activate as is, you probably want to change and adapt the application for your business or organization.
Before you continue, review the process flow for the Request Travel application. An employee completes and submits a travel request form for approval. In the Approve Request task, the designated approver reviews the travel request and takes action. The approver can send the request back to the employee for more information, allow the travel, or deny the travel. Depending on what the approver does, the employee might need to re-submit the form with more information or can book the travel.
Test Activate the QuickStart App
In this next step, you’ll test your application. Test activating activates the application to a runtime environment, which lets you play with and refine it. You can test the various user tasks, flows, and outcomes in the process. You don’t activate the application to the production environment until it’s ready.
Try It in Test Mode
And now you’re ready to try the application in the runtime test mode. Because you added yourself to all roles when test activating the application, you can submit requests in the employee role and also approve or reject requests in the approver role. You’re able to test every part of the process.
Activate the QuickStart App
So far, you have created an application from a QuickStart App, viewed and edited the travel approval process, activated the application to a test environment, and then tested each possible task in the process. Your application is good to go. The final step is to make it available to your end users.
Any user who has administrator privileges can activate a QuickStart App to a production environment. As a developer, you may or may not have this privilege.
To activate your QuickStart App to a production environment: