Business process definition

Description

Soffid includes a BMP (Business Process Management) in its Smart Engine to provide useful workflows integrated with the processes and the policies of the Soffid core. 

In order to add extra functionality to the console, you can upload different business processes (a.k.a. Workflows) that can be found in the Soffid download area and enable or disable existing ones. The existing process definition can be updated by uploading a new version.

If a workflow is disabled, processes initiated and pending can be finalized, but no longer that workflow could be started.

Please note that the workflows managed by this page will be provided by Soffid or generated from an external tool. Soffid has a bpm add-on that allows you to create, update, and publish these workflows directly from its editor.

Screen overview

Related objects

• Configure Workflow engine : where the workflow engine is configured
• Business process definition : where workflows are published
• BPM editor : where to create or modify workflows

• My tasks : pending workflows where the user has to perform an action in order to continue their workflow.

• My requests : The workflows that the user can initiate are listed here.
  

• My requests > Query request status : to search for all processes started by oneself
  

• Process Search : to search for all processes

• Metadata : to add attributes to display in the search tables
• Scheduled jobs : shows active workflows pending asynchronous tasks

Standard attributes

• Process: name of the process.
• Version: version of the process.
• Deployed by: user who performed the last workflow upload.
• Date: date and time of the last workflow upload.
• Change status: allows you to change the workflow to enable or disable according to the needs.
• Deployment results: will showdisplays the log information when you upload a workflow.workflow is upload.

Actions

Show disabled	No by default, If you checkselect (optionYes, selectedall is Yes) itworkflows will be shown all the workflows,displayed, both enable and disable workflows.disable.
DeployAdd (Add)new	Allows you to pick a defined process and upload it for deploying it in Soffid.  You must click the button with the add icon (+), click "pick a file" and select a valid file. Then Soffid will upload and deploy the process. This option allows to add new workflows or update existing workflows. You can upload a process defined with the BPM Editor and previously exported (.pardef) or a process defined by code (.par)
Enable / disable	Allows you to enable or disable a workflow. When you enable a workflow,workflows is enabled all users with proper permission could launch the processprocess. from When thea Self-serviceworkflow portalis disabled no user could start a new instance of this process.
DisableDownload	Allows you to disabledownload athe workflow,workflow. no Workflows usergenerated couldwith accessthe thatbpm processadd-on must be exported from the Self-service portal. If there are any processes initiated and pending, those processes may be finalized even if the processes are disabled.there.