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Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Intended Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

What's New in This Guide

Part I Introduction to Oracle Business Process Composer

1 Introduction to Oracle Business Process Composer

• 1.1 Signing On to Oracle Business Process Composer
• 1.2 Introduction to the Oracle Business Process Composer Application Welcome Page
  • 1.2.1 Introduction to the Oracle Business Process Composer Toolbar
    • 1.2.1.1 Introduction to the Oracle Business Process Composer Main Menu
  • 1.2.2 Introduction to the Spaces Browser
    • 1.2.2.1 How to Create a new Oracle Business Process Composer Space
    • 1.2.2.2 How to Share a Space with Other Users or Groups
    • 1.2.2.3 How to Delete an Oracle Business Process Composer Space
  • 1.2.3 Introduction to the Project List
• 1.3 Introduction to Project Panels
  • 1.3.1 Creating a New Empty Project with the BA Project Panel
  • 1.3.2 Creating a New Populated Project with the BA Project Panel
  • 1.3.3 Creating a New Empty Project with the BPM Project Panel
  • 1.3.4 Creating a New Populated Project with the BPM Project Panel
  • 1.3.5 Recent Projects Panel

Part II Performing Administrative Tasks Using Oracle Business Process Composer

2 Performing Administrative Tasks

• 2.1 Accessing the Oracle Business Process Composer Administrator View
  • 2.1.1 How to Grant Administrator Privileges to a Business Process Composer User
  • 2.1.2 How to Access the Administration View
• 2.2 Managing Business Process Composer Spaces
  • 2.2.1 Configuring Access to a BPM Space
  • 2.2.2 Removing Users from a BPM Space
  • 2.2.3 How to Delete a BPM Space and Its Content
• 2.3 Managing Projects
  • 2.3.1 How to Release the Lock on a Shared Project
  • 2.3.2 How to Delete a Project
  • 2.3.3 How to Configure Sharing for a Project
• 2.4 Defining SOA Administrator Credentials to Enable Process Player
  • 2.4.1 How to Enable Process Player
  • 2.4.2 What Happens When You Enable Process Player
  • 2.4.3 How to Disable Process Player
• 2.5 Administering Business Architecture Reports
  • 2.5.1 How to View Reports
  • 2.5.2 How to Delete a Report

Part III Creating and Working With BA and BPM Projects

3 Creating and Managing BA and BPM Projects

• 3.1 Introduction to Project Sharing and Collaboration
  • 3.1.1 Private and Public Projects
  • 3.1.2 Edit Mode
  • 3.1.3 Project Roles
• 3.2 Creating and Working with Projects
  • 3.2.1 How to Open a Project Using the Application Welcome Page
  • 3.2.2 How to Share a Project with Other Users
    • 3.2.2.1 How to Edit a Shared Project
  • 3.2.3 Managing Project Changes
  • 3.2.4 How to Discard Changes to a Project
  • 3.2.5 How to Close a Project
• 3.3 Working with Project Snapshots
  • 3.3.1 How to Create a New Project Snapshot
  • 3.3.2 How to View Contents of a Project Snapshot
  • 3.3.3 How to Return to the Active Version of a Project
  • 3.3.4 How to Delete a Project Snapshot
  • 3.3.5 How to Export a Project Snapshot
  • 3.3.6 How to Deploy a Project Snapshot
• 3.4 Importing and Exporting Projects
  • 3.4.1 How to Import a Project from your Local File System
  • 3.4.2 How to Export a Project from the Application Welcome Page
  • 3.4.3 How to Export a Project or Project Snapshot from the Project Welcome Page

4 Performing Process Analysis and Discovery with Business Architecture

• 4.1 Introduction to Business Architecture
  • 4.1.1 Introduction to Enterprise Maps
  • 4.1.2 Introduction to Value Chain Models
  • 4.1.3 Introduction to Strategy Models
  • 4.1.4 Using KPIs to Analyze Performance
• 4.2 Introduction to the BA Project Welcome Page
  • 4.2.1 Introduction to the Project Toolbar
  • 4.2.2 Introduction to the Project Information Panel
  • 4.2.3 Introduction to the Recent Activity Panel
  • 4.2.4 Introduction to the Project Component Pane
  • 4.2.5 Introduction to the Quickstart Menu
  • 4.2.6 Working with Enterprise Maps
    • 4.2.6.1 Creating an Enterprise Map for an Existing BA Project
    • 4.2.6.2 Creating an Enterprise Map for New BA Project
    • 4.2.6.3 How to Add Lanes and Process Areas to an Enterprise Map
    • 4.2.6.4 How to Assign and Organization Unit to a Lane or Process Area
    • 4.2.6.5 How to Assign a Value Chain Model to a Process Area
  • 4.2.7 Working with Value Chain Models
    • 4.2.7.1 How to Create a Value Chain Model
    • 4.2.7.2 How to Assign BPM Projects or Value Chain Models to a Step within a Chain
    • 4.2.7.3 How to Edit the Properties of a Value Chain Model Step
  • 4.2.8 Working with Strategy Models
    • 4.2.8.1 Creating a Strategy Model from the Business Architecture Welcome Page
    • 4.2.8.2 Creating a Strategy Model from the Application Welcome Page
    • 4.2.8.3 How to Edit a Strategy Model
    • 4.2.8.4 Creating Value Chain References
  • 4.2.9 Working with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
    • 4.2.9.1 How to Create a KPI
    • 4.2.9.2 How to Edit the Properties of a KPI
• 4.3 Working with Business Architecture Reports
  • 4.3.1 How to Publish Report Data
  • 4.3.2 How to Generate BA Reports
    • 4.3.2.1 Interpreting the Impact Analysis and Process Criticality Reports

5 Creating and Working with BPM Projects

• 5.1 Introduction to Oracle BPM Projects
  • 5.1.1 Introduction to Project Components and Resources
    • 5.1.1.1 Editable Project Resources
    • 5.1.1.2 The Business Catalog
    • 5.1.1.3 Business Catalog Components that Can Be Edited or Created
  • 5.1.2 Introduction to the Oracle BPM Repository
• 5.2 Introduction to the Project Welcome Page
  • 5.2.1 Introduction to the Project Toolbar
  • 5.2.2 Introduction to the Project Information Panel
  • 5.2.3 Introduction to the Recent Activity Panel
  • 5.2.4 Introduction to the Project Component Panel
  • 5.2.5 Introduction to the Quickstart Menu
  • 5.2.6 Introduction to the Oracle Business Process Composer Editors
    • 5.2.6.1 Process Editor
    • 5.2.6.2 Activity Guide Editor
    • 5.2.6.3 Human Task Editor
    • 5.2.6.4 Business Rules Editor
    • 5.2.6.5 Data Associations Editor
    • 5.2.6.6 Expression Editor
  • 5.2.7 Introduction to the Supporting Browsers and Editors
    • 5.2.7.1 Project and Process Validation Browser
    • 5.2.7.2 Documentation Editor
• 5.3 Creating and Working with Projects
  • 5.3.1 How to Create a New Project
  • 5.3.2 How to Validate a Project
  • 5.3.3 How to View the History of Changes Made to a Project
  • 5.3.4 How to View and Edit Project Properties
• 5.4 Using Guided Business Processes to Create Project Milestones
  • 5.4.1 Introduction to Guided Business Processes
    • 5.4.1.1 Introduction to Activity Guides and Milestones
  • 5.4.2 How to Configure the Activity Guide
  • 5.4.3 Creating Project Milestones
  • 5.4.4 Adding Milestones to User Tasks
• 5.5 Defining Project Roles, Business Parameters, and Organization Units
  • 5.5.1 Defining Project Roles
  • 5.5.2 Defining Business Parameters
  • 5.5.3 Defining Organization Units
• 5.6 Generating Process Reports for Your Project

6 Documenting BPM Projects

• 6.1 Understanding Project-Level Documentation
  • 6.1.1 Project Description
  • 6.1.2 Role Description
• 6.2 Understanding Process-Level Documentation
  • 6.2.1 Process Description
  • 6.2.2 Process Documentation
  • 6.2.3 Process Links
  • 6.2.4 Requirements
  • 6.2.5 Process Note
• 6.3 Understanding Activity-Level Documentation
  • 6.3.1 Activity Description
  • 6.3.2 Activity Links
  • 6.3.3 Activity Documentation
  • 6.3.4 Activity Comments
  • 6.3.5 Activity Note
  • 6.3.6 General
  • 6.3.7 Activity Issues
  • 6.3.8 RACI

Part IV Modeling and Testing Business Processes

7 Creating and Working with Business Processes

• 7.1 Introduction to Business Processes
• 7.2 Introduction to the Project Toolbar
• 7.3 Introduction to the Narrative View
• 7.4 Working with the Narrative View
  • 7.4.1 Moving an Activity
  • 7.4.2 Narrative View Options
• 7.5 Introduction to the Process Editor Graphical View
  • 7.5.1 Introduction to the Process Editor Toolbar
  • 7.5.2 Introduction to the Process Editor Canvas
  • 7.5.3 Introduction to the BPMN Component Palette
  • 7.5.4 Introduction to the Business Catalog
• 7.6 Working with Business Processes
  • 7.6.1 How to Create a New Business Process
  • 7.6.2 How to Open a Business Process
  • 7.6.3 How to Delete a Business Process
    • 7.6.3.1 What You Need to Know About Deleting a Business Process
• 7.7 Using Swimlanes to Organize Your Process
  • 7.7.1 Introduction to Roles
    • 7.7.1.1 Roles in Context
  • 7.7.2 Introduction to Swimlanes
    • 7.7.2.1 Swimlanes in Context
  • 7.7.3 Adding Swimlanes to Your Process
  • 7.7.4 Adding a Swimlane and a Flow Object to Your Process
  • 7.7.5 How to Edit Swimlane Properties
  • 7.7.6 Sharing Roles Between Business Process Composer and BPM Studio
• 7.8 Working with Flow Elements
  • 7.8.1 How to Add a Flow Object from the Component Palette
  • 7.8.2 How to Cut, Copy, or Delete a Flow Object
  • 7.8.3 How to Paste a Flow Object in a Process
  • 7.8.4 How to Add a Sequence Flow to a Process
  • 7.8.5 How to Delete a Sequence Flow
    • 7.8.5.1 What You Need to Know About Deleting a Sequence Flow
  • 7.8.6 How to Edit the Properties of a Flow Object
  • 7.8.7 How to Assign a Custom Icon to a Flow Object
• 7.9 Working with Business Catalog Components
  • 7.9.1 How to Assign a Business Catalog Component to a Flow Object
  • 7.9.2 How to Create New Human Tasks in the Business Catalog
• 7.10 Working with Draft Processes
  • 7.10.1 How to Mark a Flow Object as Draft
• 7.11 Documenting Your Process
• 7.12 Importing and Exporting Process Models
  • 7.12.1 Importing Process Models into Oracle BPM

8 Simulating Process Behavior

• 8.1 Introduction to Simulations
  • 8.1.1 Simulation Models and Simulation Definitions
  • 8.1.2 Simulation Parameters
    • 8.1.2.1 General Simulation Definition Parameters
    • 8.1.2.2 Simulation Model Parameters
    • 8.1.2.3 Resource Parameters
    • 8.1.2.4 Start Event Parameters
    • 8.1.2.5 Activity Parameters
• 8.2 Creating and Running a Simulation
• 8.3 Working with Simulation Definitions
  • 8.3.1 How to Create a Simulation Definition
  • 8.3.2 What Happens When You Create a Simulation Definition
  • 8.3.3 How to Edit a Simulation Definition
  • 8.3.4 How to Associate a Simulation Model to a Simulation Definition
• 8.4 Working with Simulation Models
  • 8.4.1 How to Create a New Simulation Model
  • 8.4.2 How to Edit a Simulation Model
• 8.5 Running Simulations
  • 8.5.1 How to Run a Simulation
• 8.6 Analyzing the Results of a Simulation
  • 8.6.1 How to Analyze the Results of a Simulation Using a Chart

9 Using Process Player

• 9.1 Introduction to Process Player
  • 9.1.1 How Process Player Handles the Flow Objects of Your Process
  • 9.1.2 Enabling Process Player in Oracle Business Process Composer
• 9.2 Using Process Player to Test the Behavior of Business Processes
  • 9.2.1 How to Map the Roles Defined in Your Process to Users in Your Organization
  • 9.2.2 How to Use Process Player to Run a Business Process

Part V Defining How Users Interact with Your Business Processes

10 Working with Web Forms

• 10.1 Introduction to Forms in Oracle BPM
  • 10.1.1 Introduction to Web Forms
  • 10.1.2 Form First and Data First Design
• 10.2 Introduction to the Web Forms Designer
  • 10.2.1 Introduction to the Web Forms Component Palette
  • 10.2.2 Introduction to the Web Form Editor Toolbar
  • 10.2.3 Introduction to the Property Editor
  • 10.2.4 Introduction to the Data Source Panel
  • 10.2.5 Introduction to the Form Canvas
• 10.3 Introduction to Web Form Controls
  • 10.3.1 Input Controls
    • 10.3.1.1 Text
    • 10.3.1.2 TextArea
    • 10.3.1.3 Date, Time, Date/Time
      • 10.3.1.3.1 The Date Control
      • 10.3.1.3.2 The Time Control
      • 10.3.1.3.3 The Date/Time Control
    • 10.3.1.4 Email
    • 10.3.1.5 Money
    • 10.3.1.6 Phone
    • 10.3.1.7 Quantity
    • 10.3.1.8 Number
  • 10.3.2 Selection Controls
    • 10.3.2.1 Dropdown
    • 10.3.2.2 Radio
    • 10.3.2.3 Check Box
    • 10.3.2.4 Booleancheckbox
  • 10.3.3 Group Controls
    • 10.3.3.1 Sections
    • 10.3.3.2 Optional Sections
    • 10.3.3.3 Tabs
    • 10.3.3.4 Panels
    • 10.3.3.5 Tables
    • 10.3.3.6 Repeats
    • 10.3.3.7 Changing a Repeat Control to a Table
  • 10.3.4 Other Controls
    • 10.3.4.1 Message Control
    • 10.3.4.2 Link Control
    • 10.3.4.3 Button Control
    • 10.3.4.4 Image Control
    • 10.3.4.5 Trigger Control
• 10.4 Introduction to Data Sources
  • 10.4.1 Web Form Controls Generated by Payload Data Types
  • 10.4.2 Modifying Web Form Controls Generated From Data Elements
    • 10.4.2.1 What You Can Edit Using the Web Form Editor
    • 10.4.2.2 What You Cannot Edit Using the Web Form Designer
  • 10.4.3 Introduction to the Display As Property
• 10.5 Walkthrough: Creating a Web Form Using the Form First Method
• 10.6 Walkthrough: Creating a Web Form Using the Data First Method
• 10.7 Working with Web Forms
  • 10.7.1 How to Add Controls to a Web Form
  • 10.7.2 Creating Multi-Column Forms
  • 10.7.3 How to Add Controls Based on Data Sources
    • 10.7.3.1 Generating Form Controls for all Data Elements in a Payload
    • 10.7.3.2 Generating Form Controls for Individual Data Elements
  • 10.7.4 Adding Business Objects to a Web Form
  • 10.7.5 How to Show Which Web Controls Were Created from a Data Source
  • 10.7.6 How to Edit the Properties of a Web Form
  • 10.7.7 How to Edit the Properties of Web Form Controls
  • 10.7.8 How to Delete a Web Form
  • 10.7.9 How to Remove a Control from a Web Form
    • 10.7.9.1 Removing Controls
    • 10.7.9.2 Removing Organizational Controls from a Web Form
  • 10.7.10 How to Test a Web Form
  • 10.7.11 About Localization in Web Forms

11 Working with Web Form Rules

• 11.1 Introduction to Form Rules
  • 11.1.1 Form Rule Javascript Syntax
    • 11.1.1.1 Control Name
    • 11.1.1.2 Form Rule Identifiers
    • 11.1.1.3 Strings and Numbers
    • 11.1.1.4 Dates and Times
    • 11.1.1.5 Writing Conditions
    • 11.1.1.6 Select Controls
    • 11.1.1.7 Initial Control State
    • 11.1.1.8 Form Rules and Repeating Controls
  • 11.1.2 Using Dynamic Content in Form Rules
    • 11.1.2.1 Dynamic Content
    • 11.1.2.2 Reusing Dynamic Content
  • 11.1.3 Using Data and Built-in Methods in a Form Rule
    • 11.1.3.1 Built-in Data
    • 11.1.3.2 Built-in Methods
  • 11.1.4 Understanding How Form Rules Work at Runtime
    • 11.1.4.1 When are Form Rules Executed?
    • 11.1.4.2 Infinite Loops
  • 11.1.5 Debugging Form Rules
    • 11.1.5.1 Debugging Duplicate Control Names
    • 11.1.5.2 Form Rule Profiling
• 11.2 Working with Form Rules
  • 11.2.1 How to Create a Form Rule
  • 11.2.2 How to Test a Form Rule

12 Working with Human Tasks

• 12.1 Introduction to Human Tasks
  • 12.1.1 Introduction to Participant and Routing Types
    • 12.1.1.1 Participant Types
    • 12.1.1.2 Routing Types
    • 12.1.1.3 Outcome
  • 12.1.2 Introduction to Participant Assignment
  • 12.1.3 Introduction to Duration
• 12.2 Introduction to the Human Task Editor
• 12.3 Working with Human Tasks
  • 12.3.1 Walkthrough: Creating and Configuring a Human Task
  • 12.3.2 How to Create New Human Task
  • 12.3.3 How to Open a Human Task
  • 12.3.4 How to Configure Basic Task Properties
  • 12.3.5 How to Configure the Deadline (Duration) for a Human Task
  • 12.3.6 How to Specify the Presentation of a Human Task
    • 12.3.6.1 Specifying the Presentation of a Human Task with an ADF Task Form
    • 12.3.6.2 Specifying the Presentation of a Human Task with a Web Form
  • 12.3.7 How to Change the Default Participant
  • 12.3.8 How to Add Participants and Routing to a Human Task
  • 12.3.9 How to Assign Users, Groups, and Roles to a Participant
    • 12.3.9.1 Selecting Participants using Names and Expressions
    • 12.3.9.2 Selecting Participants using Lane Participants
    • 12.3.9.3 Selecting Participants using Parametric Roles
  • 12.3.10 How to Configure the Outcome for Parallel Routing
  • 12.3.11 How to Create and Configure the Data Payload for a Human Task
• 12.4 Assigning a Human Task to a User Task

Part VI Handling Data in Your Business Application

13 Working with Data Objects and Data Associations

• 13.1 About Handling Data Used by Your Business Processes
  • 13.1.1 How to Define the Data Used by an Oracle BPM Application
• 13.2 Introduction to Data Objects
  • 13.2.1 Introduction to Basic and Complex Data Objects
  • 13.2.2 Introduction to Process and Project Data Objects
    • 13.2.2.1 Process Data Objects
    • 13.2.2.2 Project Data Objects
• 13.3 Working with Data Objects
  • 13.3.1 How to Create a Data Object
  • 13.3.2 How to Edit or Delete a Data Object
  • 13.3.3 What Happens When You Delete or Edit a Data Object
• 13.4 Introduction to Data Associations
  • 13.4.1 Introduction to the Data Associations Editor
  • 13.4.2 How to Configure Data Associations for a Flow Object

14 Using Complex Data Types to Define Data Structures

• 14.1 Introduction to Complex Data Types
• 14.2 Working with Complex Data Types
  • 14.2.1 How to Create a Complex Data Type Manually
    • 14.2.1.1 Creating a New Business Object
    • 14.2.1.2 Creating a New Exception
    • 14.2.1.3 Creating a New Enum Object
  • 14.2.2 What Happens When You Create a Complex Data Type
  • 14.2.3 How to Edit a Complex Data Type
  • 14.2.4 How to Delete a Complex Data Type, Module, or Attribute

15 Using Expressions to Control Data

• 15.1 Introduction to Expressions
  • 15.1.1 Introduction to the Expression Editor
  • 15.1.2 Types of Expressions
  • 15.1.3 Simple Expressions
    • 15.1.3.1 Operator Types
    • 15.1.3.2 Operator Precedence
• 15.2 Working with Expressions
  • 15.2.1 How to Define a Simple Expression for a Conditional Sequence Flow
  • 15.2.2 How to Define a Simple Expression in Data Associations

16 Tracking Business Data in Your Application

• 16.1 Working with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  • 16.1.1 Introduction to Key Performance Indicators
    • 16.1.1.1 KPI Lifecycle
    • 16.1.1.2 Types of Key Performance Indicators
• 16.2 Working with Business Indicators and Counter Marks
  • 16.2.1 Introduction to Business Indicators and Counters
  • 16.2.2 Introduction to Counter Marks
  • 16.2.3 How to Add a New Counter Mark to a Process
  • 16.2.4 How to Delete a Counter Mark
• 16.3 Measuring Process Performance Using Measurement Marks
  • 16.3.1 How to Add a Measurement Mark to a Process

Part VII Implementing and Deploying a BPM Project

17 Using Oracle Business Rules

• 17.1 Introduction to Oracle Business Rules
• 17.2 Working with Oracle Business Process Composer Rules Editor
  • 17.2.1 Introduction to Decision Points
• 17.3 Working with Business Rule Dictionaries
  • 17.3.1 How to Create a New Business Rule Dictionary
  • 17.3.2 Viewing and Editing Dictionary Settings
  • 17.3.3 Synchronizing Business Objects
• 17.4 Working with Dictionary Links
• 17.5 Working with Rulesets
  • 17.5.1 How to Add General Rules and Verbal Rules to a Ruleset
    • 17.5.1.1 Adding a Rule to a Ruleset
    • 17.5.1.2 Adding a General Rule
    • 17.5.1.3 Adding a Verbal Rule
• 17.6 Working with Decision Tables
  • 17.6.1 How to Add a Decision Table to a Ruleset
• 17.7 Working with Facts
• 17.8 Working with Value Sets
  • 17.8.1 How to Add a Value Set
  • 17.8.2 How to Edit an Existing Value Set
• 17.9 Working with Global Variables
  • 17.9.1 How to Add a Global Variable
    • 17.9.1.1 About Final and Constant Options
  • 17.9.2 How to Edit Globals
• 17.10 Working with Verbal Rules and Business Phrases
  • 17.10.1 How to Create Business Phrases
  • 17.10.2 Draft Business Phrases and Verbal Rules
  • 17.10.3 Choosing or Adding Business Phrases in Verbal Rules
    • 17.10.3.1 Instantiating New Business Phrases While Authoring a Verbal Rule
    • 17.10.3.2 Choosing Business Phrases While Creating a Verbal Rule
• 17.11 Working with Decision Functions
• 17.12 Working with Explorer
• 17.13 Working with Translations
• 17.14 Assigning a Rule to a Business Rules Task
• 17.15 Editing Oracle Business Rules at Run Time

18 Communicating with Other Processes and Services

• 18.1 Defining Process Input and Output
  • 18.1.1 How to Define the Input Arguments for a Process
  • 18.1.2 How to Define Data Associations for a Message Start Event
  • 18.1.3 How to Define the Output Arguments for a Process
  • 18.1.4 How to Define Data Association for a Message End Event
• 18.2 Using the Send and Receive Tasks to Communicate Between Processes
• 18.3 Using Message Throw and Catch Events to Communicate Between Processes
• 18.4 Defining Conversations
  • 18.4.1 Introduction to Conversations
  • 18.4.2 Working with Conversations
    • 18.4.2.1 How to Define a Conversation
    • 18.4.2.2 How to Set the Default Conversation
    • 18.4.2.3 How to Define a Conversation for a BPMN Flow Object
    • 18.4.2.4 How to View a Collaboration Diagram
• 18.5 Working with Services
  • 18.5.1 How to Create New Services in the Business Catalog
    • 18.5.1.1 Creating New Services
    • 18.5.1.2 Creating New Services in the Process Editor

19 Deploying a BPM Project

• 19.1 Deploying a Project
  • 19.1.1 Who Can Deploy Projects?
  • 19.1.2 How to Deploy a Project to Runtime
  • 19.1.3 How to Edit a Deployed Project
  • 19.1.4 How to Generate a Project SAR File
  • 19.1.5 How to Generate a Deployment Plan

Part VIII Appendices

A BPMN Flow Object Reference

• A.1 Defining the Start and End Point of a Process
  • A.1.1 Introduction to Start and End Events
    • A.1.1.1 Specifying the Start Events for Different Types of Processes
    • A.1.1.2 Using Multiple Start Events in a Process
    • A.1.1.3 Using Multiple End Events in a Process
  • A.1.2 Defining How a Process Instance is Triggered
  • A.1.3 Introduction to the None Start Event
    • A.1.3.1 The None Start Event in Context
    • A.1.3.2 Data Associations
  • A.1.4 Introduction to the Message Start Event
    • A.1.4.1 The Message Start Event in Context
    • A.1.4.2 Using Process Input and Output Arguments
  • A.1.5 Introduction to the Signal Start Event
    • A.1.5.1 The Signal Start Event in Context
  • A.1.6 Introduction to the Timer Start Event
  • A.1.7 Introduction to the Error Start Event
  • A.1.8 Introduction to the None End Event
    • A.1.8.1 The None End Event in Context
  • A.1.9 Introduction to the Error End Event
  • A.1.10 Introduction to the Message End Event
  • A.1.11 Introduction to the Terminate End Event
• A.2 Adding User Interaction to Your Process
  • A.2.1 Introduction to Human Workflow
    • A.2.1.1 Introduction to Human Tasks
  • A.2.2 Introduction to the User Task
    • A.2.2.1 The User Task in Context
    • A.2.2.2 Using Interactive Activities
  • A.2.3 Introduction to the Manual Task
    • A.2.3.1 The Manual Task in Context
  • A.2.4 Introduction to the Update Task
• A.3 Communicating With Other Processes and Services
  • A.3.1 Introduction to the Service Task
    • A.3.1.1 The Service Task in Context
  • A.3.2 Introduction to the Notification Task
  • A.3.3 Introduction to the Call Activity
  • A.3.4 Introduction to the Send Task
  • A.3.5 Introduction to the Receive Task
    • A.3.5.1 Starting a Process with the Receive Task
  • A.3.6 Introduction to the Message Throw Event
  • A.3.7 Introduction to the Message Catch Event
• A.4 Adding Business Logic Using Oracle Business Rules
  • A.4.1 Introduction to Oracle Business Rules
  • A.4.2 Introduction to the Business Rule Task
    • A.4.2.1 The Business Rule Task in Context
• A.5 Controlling Process Flow Using Sequence Flows
  • A.5.1 Introduction to Sequence Flows
  • A.5.2 Introduction to Unconditional Sequence Flows
  • A.5.3 Introduction to Conditional Sequence Flows
  • A.5.4 Introduction to Default Sequence Flows
• A.6 Controlling Process Flow Using Gateways
  • A.6.1 Introduction to Gateways
    • A.6.1.1 Split-Merge Pairs
  • A.6.2 Introduction to the Exclusive Gateway
    • A.6.2.1 The Exclusive Gateway in Context
    • A.6.2.2 Splitting and Merging Exclusive Gateways
  • A.6.3 Introduction to the Inclusive Gateway
    • A.6.3.1 Splitting and Merging Inclusive Gateways
  • A.6.4 Introduction to the Parallel Gateway
    • A.6.4.1 The Parallel Gateway in Context
    • A.6.4.2 Splitting and Merging Parallel Gateways
  • A.6.5 Introduction to the Complex Gateway
  • A.6.6 Introduction to the Event-Based Gateway
    • A.6.6.1 Starting a Process with an Event-Based Gateway
• A.7 Controlling Process Flow Using Intermediate Events
  • A.7.1 Introduction to Intermediate Events
  • A.7.2 Introduction to the Timer Catch Event
  • A.7.3 Introduction to the Error Catch Event
• A.8 Using Subprocesses in Oracle BPM
  • A.8.1 Introduction to Reusable Processes (Reusable Subprocesses)
  • A.8.2 Introduction to Embedded Subprocesses (Inline Subprocesses)
    • A.8.2.1 Embedded Subprocesses and Sequence Flows
    • A.8.2.2 Embedded Subprocesses in Context
    • A.8.2.3 Looping Embedded Subprocesses
  • A.8.3 Introduction to Event Subprocesses (Event Handlers)
• A.9 Changing the Value of Data Objects in Your Process
  • A.9.1 Introduction to the Script Task
    • A.9.1.1 The Script Task in Context

B Web Form and Web Form Control Property Reference

• B.1 Web Form Properties
  • B.1.1 Settings Tab
  • B.1.2 Style Tab
• B.2 Web Form Control Properties
  • B.2.1 Web Form Control Properties - Settings Tab
  • B.2.2 Web Form Control Properties - Style Tab

C Web Form Rules Examples

• C.1 Calculate a Total
• C.2 Show/Hide a Billing Address
• C.3 Show/Hide Message
• C.4 Enable/Disable a Question
• C.5 Compute Subtotals for Repeating Items
• C.6 Compute an Invoice Total
• C.7 Textarea Max Length
• C.8 Textarea Newline and Break
• C.9 Dropdown Options
• C.10 Finding a Selected Options Index
• C.11 Synchronized Selects
• C.12 Clearing Dropdown Options
• C.13 Default Option
• C.14 Check Box Options - Assigning Color to Check Box Choices
• C.15 Check Box Options - Making a Control Visible/Invisible Based on Check Box Choices
• C.16 Check Box Initialization
• C.17 Displaying Selected Check Box Labels
• C.18 Repeating Check Boxes
• C.19 Display a Message Control Inside a Repeat Control
• C.20 String Concatenation
• C.21 Visible/Invisible
• C.22 Visible/Invisible Section
• C.23 Select Tab
• C.24 Next Tab
• C.25 Expand/Collapse Section
• C.26 Multiple Choice
• C.27 Dynamic Options
• C.28 Triggers and Dynamic Options
• C.29 Value Change and Dynamic Options
• C.30 Dynamic Control Initialization
• C.31 Verify User
• C.32 Calculate Net Worth
• C.33 Dates and Times
  • C.33.1 Duration
  • C.33.2 Today's Date and Time
  • C.33.3 Date/Time Stamp
  • C.33.4 Invalid if Before Today
  • C.33.5 Date Less than 14 Days from Today
  • C.33.6 Date Less than 30 Days Ago
  • C.33.7 Central Timezone adjusted for Daylight Savings
  • C.33.8 Hours > = 4 and < = 6 Apart
  • C.33.9 Times
• C.34 Tenants, Roles and Users
• C.35 Repeat Item Added
• C.36 Repeat Item Added - Collapse Other Items
• C.37 Tables
• C.38 form.load
• C.39 form.unload
• C.40 Unique ID
• C.41 Repeat Item Initialization
• C.42 ItemAdded by Init Doc

D Preparing Processes for Import into Oracle BPM

• D.1 Preparing a Visio File to Import as a BPMN Process
  • D.1.1 Working of Visio Shape Mapping
    • D.1.1.1 Conditional Mapping
  • D.1.2 Visio Modelling Tips
  • D.1.3 Updating VisioUserMap.XML
  • D.1.4 Valid BPMN Element Values
  • D.1.5 BPMN Element Attributes
  • D.1.6 Handling Extraneous Text
• D.2 Customizing XPDL Import Using XSLT
  • D.2.1 Common Transformation Requirements
  • D.2.2 Overview of Transformation Logic
  • D.2.3 Special Attributes
    • D.2.3.1 Object Coordinates
    • D.2.3.2 Activity Local Coordinate System
    • D.2.3.3 Removing Invisible Elements
    • D.2.3.4 Handling Proprietary Namespaces
    • D.2.3.5 Supporting Multiple XPDL Versions
    • D.2.3.6 Testing and Debugging XSLT