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Create user interfaces for business processes

Users interact with a IBM BPM process through human services.

There are two types of user interfaces for human services: task completion and dashboards. A task completion user interface implements a specific activity within a process instance. It has access to the details of that process instance. For information, see the User Task implementation option in Implementing activities and see Building a Human service. A dashboard is a stand-alone user interface that users can run at any time. Users can access dashboards through the Process Portal. For information about dashboards, see Manage processes and workload using dashboards in Process Portal. You can also use a Coach-based dashboard as a WebSphere portlet. For information, see Generate portlets for human services exposed as dashboards.

To build either type of user interface for human services, you use Coaches or Heritage Coaches. Coaches are composed from user interface controls called Coach Views. You can create Coach Views in Process Designer. For information, see Coaches and Coach Views. Heritage Coaches are composed from a fixed set of user interfaces controls. They are primarily for compatibility with IBM BPM before version 8.0. For processes created with IBM BPM v8.0 and later, Coaches are recommended.

• Coaches
  Coaches are the user interfaces for human services.
• Difference between Coaches and Heritage Coaches
  The Coaches in V8.0.1 of IBM BPM are different in construction than the Coaches in V7.5.1 and previous versions of IBM BPM.
• Building Coaches
  

  You can build a Coach as the user interface that process participants use to interact with a service.

• Developing reusable Coach Views
  To contain functions or user interface elements that another Coach View or a Coach can use, create a Coach View.
• Stock controls
  Stock controls are Coach Views that are included with IBM BPM . They are in the Coaches (SYSC) toolkit.
• Stock content controls
  Stock content controls are Coach Views that are included with IBM BPM. They are contained within the Content Management (SYSCM) toolkit.
• Coach and Coach View examples
  This documentation includes a number of examples that demonstrate how to create and code the various parts of Coaches and Coach Views.
• Coach and Coach View reference information
  The following topics contain reference information for Coaches and Coach Views.
• Building Heritage Coaches
  When you build human services you can use Heritage Coaches, which provide the interfaces for end-user interaction.

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