The Process participant's interaction is enabled in the SalesToContract process by Human Tasks. You will create a User task in the process, where a process participant is required to perform tasks.
In the SalesToContract process, inside the SalesRepresentative swimlane, the user with the Sales Representative role has the task of entering quote information.
Create a User task, which will prompt the Sales Representative, to enter quote information, as follows:
- Click on the process name (SalesToContract) in the Project navigator. This will open the Process Editor.
- Click on Component Palette | BPM Components and select Activities, in the list.
- Click on Interactive | Initiator. You will create a human task of the Initiator type:
- Enter name of the User task as Enter Quote.
- Click on the sequence flow icon, at the top middle of the Process Editor.
- Create an outgoing sequence flow from Start Event | Enter Quote.
- Create the sequence flow as "unconditional".
- Click on Sequence flow, and open the Sequence Flow Properties dialog box, wherein you can create Conditional sequence flows as well.
- When you have finished the preceding steps, click Save.
How it works...
The Process participant interacts with BPM Workspace in BPM Suite. This can be a simple interaction, such as entering a form, or part of a more complicated workflow that requires input from multiple process participants.
As you are modeling the process, you, as a Process Analyst, will only add the user task to a process diagram. Process Developers, during implementation, will create the necessary human tasks and implement them as part of creating the overall process-based business application.
User tasks contain incoming and outgoing data associations. User tasks may also contain incoming and default outgoing sequence flows.