IBM BPM, V8.0.1, All platforms > Administer applications and processes in the runtime environment > Manage processes and their components

Administer BPEL processes and human tasks

BPEL processes and human tasks are deployed as part of an application. You can use the administrative console or the administrative commands to administer process templates and task templates. Use Business Process Choreographer Explorer to work with process instances and task instances and to report on BPEL processes and human tasks.

• Get started with Business Process Choreographer Explorer and Business Process Archive Explorer
  Depending on your user role, you can use these client interfaces to manage BPEL processes and human tasks, work with your assigned tasks, view completed BPEL processes and human tasks that are in an archive database, or delete processes and tasks from the archive.
• BPEL process administration—frequently asked questions
  Answers to a set of frequently asked questions about administering BPEL processes.
• Optimizing BPEL process administration
  To improve performance, you can reduce the database load and the rate at which the database grows by optimizing how processes are administered.
• Administer BPEL process and task templates
  Use the administrative console or the administrative commands to administer BPEL process and task templates.
• Manage the lifecycle of BPEL processes using Business Process Choreographer Explorer
  After a BPEL process starts, it goes through various states until it ends. As a process administrator, you can take various actions on a process throughout its lifecycle.
• Repairing BPEL processes and activities using Business Process Choreographer Explorer
  

  If a BPEL process runs into problems, you can analyze the process and then repair the activities.

• Manage the lifecycle of task instances
  After a task starts, it goes through various states until it ends. You can use Business Process Choreographer Explorer to take various actions on a task instance throughout its lifecycle.
• Manage work authorizations and assignments
  After a task or BPEL process instance has started, you might need to manage work authorizations or assignments for the task or process, for example, to better distribute the work load over the members of a work group.
• Create and editing custom properties in Business Process Choreographer Explorer
  Create new custom properties to specify additional properties for process instances, activity instances, or task instances.