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: displays the log information when a workflow is upload.

Actions

Show disabled	No by default, If you select Yes, all workflows will be displayed, both enable and disable.
Add new	Allows you to pick a defined process and upload it for deploying it in Soffid.   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 a workflows is enabled all users with proper permission could launch the process. When a workflow is disabled no user could start a new instance of this process.
Download	Allows you to download the workflow. Workflows generated with the bpm add-on must be exported from there.