User interface concepts
People interact with process applications through user interfaces. IBM® Business Automation Workflow provides a number of artifacts that you can use to create these user interfaces.
Within a process application, tasks that are implemented as human services contain the user
interfaces. Within its own flow, every human service contains at least one coach. A coach creates a
page in the user interface, which users can see in a web browser. The human service can also include
gateways and script tasks that affect the flow of the user interfaces or change the variables that
are passed into a coach.
Coaches can contain one or more views, which are reusable UI elements. Views can be
composite-style, which are simple views, or widget-style, which are more complex custom views. For
more information, see Views.
When you develop applications in IBM Business Automation Workflow, you use the Process Designer to create coaches and views for client-side human services or heritage human services (deprecated). To author heritage human services, you can also use the desktop Process Designer, which is deprecated. When the human service is running, users see and interact with the coaches and views that you built in a web browser.