Business Process Choreographer Explorer is a web application
that can be installed as part of the configuration of the process
container.
Before you begin
Before you can start using Business Process Choreographer
Explorer from a web browser, you must have installed the process
container, human task container, and the Business Process Choreographer
Explorer application, and the application must be running.
About this task
To start Business Process Choreographer Explorer, complete
the following steps.
Procedure
- Direct your web browser to the Business Process Choreographer
Explorer URL.
The value of the URL depends on how the
virtual host and context root were configured for your installation.
The URL takes the following form.
https://application_server_host:port_number/context_root
Important: Any attempts to access the Business Process
Choreographer Explorer using the HTTP protocol are redirected to use
HTTPS.
In addition, you can extend the URL to go directly
to a list or details page for a process, task, or escalation.
https://application_server_host:port_number/context_root
[?oid_type=oid[&view=graphic]|?oids_type=[oids]]
Where:
- application_server_host
- The network name for the host of the application server that provides
the Business Process Choreographer Explorer instance with which you
want to work.
- port_number
- The port number used by Business Process Choreographer Explorer.
The port number depends on your system configuration. The default
port number is
9443.
- context_root
- The root directory for the Business Process Choreographer Explorer
application on the application server. The default is
bpc.
- oid_type
- Optional. The type of object that you want to display. This parameter
can take one of the following values:
- aiid
- Activity instance ID
- piid
- Process instance ID
- ptid
- Process template ID
- tkiid
- Task instance ID
- tktid
- Task template ID
- esiid
- Escalation instance ID
- oid
- Required if oid_type is specified. The value
of the object ID. If you did not specify a view or you specified an
unsupported value for the view, the details page of the object is
displayed.
- view
- Optional. The type of view to be shown.
- graphic
- Optional. This parameter is used to display the Process
State View page or the Process Structure View page. It requires that the value of the oid_type parameter is piid, aiid, or ptid.
- If the value of the oid_type parameter is piid
or aiid, the Process State View page is displayed.
For activities, this is the Process State View page for the corresponding
process.
- If the value of the oid_type parameter is ptid,
the Process Structure View page is displayed.
- oids_type
- Optional. The type of the objects that you want display. Use this
parameter if you want to display a list of objects. If you specify
the oid_type parameter, this parameter is ignored.
This parameter can take one of the following values:
- aiids
- Activity instance IDs
- piids
- Process instance IDs
- ptids
- Process template IDs
- tkiids
- Task instance IDs
- tktids
- Task template IDs
- oids
- Optional. A comma-separated list of the object IDs that you want
to display in a list. If you do not specify a list of object IDs,
all of the objects of the specified object type that you are authorized
to see are displayed.
- Enter a user ID and password, then click Login.
Results
If you did not specify any of the optional parameters, the
initial Business Process Choreographer Explorer page is displayed.
By default, the initial page is the My To-dos page. If you specified one of the optional parameters, the details
page, the Process Structure View page, or the Process State View page for the object, or a list of objects
is displayed.
Example URLs
The following list shows example
URLs for some of the Business Process Choreographer pages.
- Process Instance page
https://hostname:9443/bpc?piid=_PI:90030109.7232ed16.d33c67f6.beb30076
- Process State View page of a process instance
https://hostname:9443/bpc?piid=_PI:9003012b.f36b82cc.ee016df6.dde001ae&view=graphic
- Process Structure View page of the parent
process of an activity instance
https://hostname:9443/bpc?aiid=_AI:9004012b.f36bc92b.ee016df6.dde0021f&view=graphic
- Process Structure View page of a process
template
https://hostname:9443/bpc?ptid=_PT:9001012b.fea5bcf.b076df6.abd502b4&view=graphic
- List two specific process instances
https://hostname:9443/bpc?piids=_PI:9003012c.3b615b8e.948c67f6.87ff010e,
_PI:9003012c.3b617d5e.948c67f6.87ff016a
- List all process templates
https://hostname:9443/bpc?ptids=