Create the workflow definition

About this task

a simple sales workflow definition

Using Process Designer, create the simple process shown above - SalesMonitorDemo. The purpose of this example process is to receive an order for some product, check the customer's credit, and then either proceed to pack and ship, or notify the customer of rejected credit. To have values to monitor, each order includes a location (N, E, S, or W), and an amount of the order. We also have different queues to monitor such as Notify and PackShip, in addition to an Inbox (CheckCredit).

Procedure

  1. In Process Designer, Workflow Properties, create the following data fields. (To avoid entering values at Launch, we initialized the fields with random values as indicated.)
    Amount (integer)
    value: random(10000)
    Location (string)
    value: translate(convert(random(4),string), "0123", "NEWS")
    Credit (integer)
    value: random(10)
  2. Add the steps and routes to the map.
    • CheckCredit step is processed by the F_Originator (Inbox).
    • PackShip step is processed by the PackShip queue.
    • Notify step is processed by Notify queue.
    • Ok route has condition Credit >= 3
    • Reject route has condition Credit < 3
  3. Save the workflow definition