Work with process applications
Business process applications deployed on your WebSphere Process Server can be used immediately in your integrated portal environment. You can use the Manage Processes portlet on the My Processes page to manage process instances of those business processes, the Task List portlet on the My Tasks page to browse and claim your tasks, and the Task Processing portlet on the default task page to complete individual tasks. Before you can work with portal-based business process applications, ensure that all procedures for configuring the business process integration have been successfully completed and that the necessary business process applications have been deployed.
To work with the business process applications that have been deployed in the integrated portal and process server environment, consider your role as a user and follow these steps:
- Log in to WebSphere Portal.
- From the product banner, click Applications > Process Integration to display the My Processes and My Tasks pages.
- Click My Processes to display the Manage Processes portlet, where you can manage process templates, process instances, and task templates. If you are an application developer, use the Manage Processes portlet for piloting proof of concept deployments, rapid prototyping, and testing and debugging.
- Click My Tasks to display the Task List portlet.
- In the Task List portlet, click a claimed task to open the corresponding task page that allows you to work with the Task Processing portlet. If you are a business application user, use the Task List to claim and work with the tasks assigned to you. If you are an administrator, you can configure the Task List for users working with portal-based business process tasks. If you are an application developer, use the Task Processing portlet as a starting point when creating dedicated task pages for the human tasks contained in your business process application.
- Manage processes
From the Manage Processes portlet on the My Processes page, you can work with the process instances, process templates, and task templates of business processes on WebSphere Process Server.
You can start new instances of the process templates deployed on the process server and analyze existing process instances. You can also terminate and delete processes that are running.
- Use task lists
Use the Task List to view and manage the tasks assigned to you, the tasks that you are allowed to claim, and the tasks already claimed. View the details of a task and open a task to complete it, edit it, or take action for advancing the task through the workflow. If you have permission to open the Task List in configuration mode, you can specify the settings that will apply to all instances of the Task List in the portal for all users.
- Work on tasks
Use the generic Task Processing portlet or custom-coded, dedicated task processing portlets to work with and complete individual tasks contained in the workflow of the business process definition.
- Use generic process integration portlets in a cross-cell setup
If you have installed WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Process Server in separate cells and want to use the Task Processing portlet or the Manage Processes portlet, you need to manually copy required process artifacts from the process server to the portal server. If you are running a clustered portal setup, you need to copy the process artifacts to all portal servers in the cluster.
Parent topic:
Integrate with WebSphere Process Server
Related concepts
Process integration concepts
Related tasks
Enable process integration
Customize process integration
Develop custom user interfaces for process integration
Related information
WebSphere Process Server library
IBM Business Process Management