How to Incorporate Standard Activities in a Workflow Process

Oracle Workflow comes seeded with commonly used standard activities that you can use in any workflow process. The standard activities are:

·             And

·             Assign

·             Block

·             Compare Date

·             Compare Number

·             Compare Text

·             Continue Flow

·             End

·             Get Monitor URL

Define a new Workflow process

To plan a workflow process, you must identify all of the activities and transitions for your entire workflow process. You must determine, from the start of the workflow process, how the next activity will be selected and transitioned. You will determine how transitions should branch to other activities based on the result codes of a completed activity, and then establish the order of execution. You will decide who needs to be notified and who needs to respond. You also must identify attributes needed for all of the activities and determine where the values of the attributes will come from.

Components of a Workflow Process

A workflow process consists of several components. Expand the apps@vd11 line by clicking on the plus sign (+) inside the Navigator. You will see three item types: PO Approval, PO Standard, and Standard. You will also see a Hidden Item Types icon. Double-click on the Hidden Item 

Types icon to display the same Show Item Types window seen when you open a Workflow file. Expand the menu attached to PO Approval and you will see the six components of the PO Approval. They are:

·       Attributes

·       Processes

·       Notifications

·       Functions

·       Messages

·       Lookup types