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Table of Contents
Chapter 6
Designing activities...........................................................................................33
Defining activity triggers ................................................................................34
Creating wait activities...................................................................................34
Sending tasks to a temporary set of users ......................................................34
Designing processes ........................................................................................35
Creating complex conditional routing with a decision split ................................35
Using sub-processes.....................................................................................36
Understanding message correlation ...............................................................36
Using the data mapper .....................................................................................37
Mapping repeating attributes..........................................................................37
Setting the context for repeating attributes ......................................................38
Adding multi-valued attributes ........................................................................41
XML and other data formats...........................................................................42
Setting custom object types for attachments ...................................................42
Looping ...........................................................................................................42
Inter-process communication ............................................................................50
Using the process debugger .............................................................................55
Debugging custom methods with the process debugger ..................................56
Process design and Business Activity Monitor (BAM)..........................................57
Enabling reporting for BAM............................................................................58
Reporting on data in an external database to BAM..........................................59
Process design and performance ......................................................................59
Choose one automatic performer ...................................................................59
Performance and stability of executing automated workflow activities ...............60
Large SDTs and performance ........................................................................60
Deployment considerations ...............................................................................60
Migrating or upgrading Process Builder ..........................................................61
Process versioning........................................................................................61
Accessing structured data types from a custom application .................................61
Creating the User Interface.............................................................................63
Creating form templates in Forms Builder ..........................................................63
General tips for user interface design .............................................................63
Multiple ways to start a process .....................................................................64
Options for when a process starts ..................................................................69
Options to design a task view ........................................................................70
Process and form template version links.........................................................73
Custom error messages ................................................................................74
Data adaptors...............................................................................................75
Using one data source adaptor to populate multiple fields................................77
Performance.................................................................................................84
Implementing TaskSpace applications ...............................................................85
Iterative rollout of a TaskSpace application .....................................................85
Working with task templates ..........................................................................86
Setting the height of the metadata pane in a folder view ..................................86
Working with configurable actions ..................................................................87
Chapter 7 Monitoring Business Activity .........................................................................89
System requirements........................................................................................89
Reporting requirements ....................................................................................89
Dashboard design considerations......................................................................90
Crystal Reports versus Simple Reports..............................................................91
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