Scenario for running a workflow
This scenario describes how users might interact with the a workflow titled "Bring New Hires On Board" that captures some of the tasks that need to be completed when a new employee joins an organization.
- The hiring manager, Amadou Alain, navigates to the Manage New Hires application that includes workflow tasks related to hiring a new employee.
- He uses the Workflow List portlet to check the status of all existing new hires in the Manage New Hires application.
- While logged in, Amadou starts a new workflow for a new employee, Heather Reed by entering her name in the Workflow List portlet to start a new workflow.
- He then claims and opens the initial task created for that workflow.
- He adds Heather Reed to the Employee Information System (EIS) for the organization.
- He navigates to e-mail to check Heather's equipment request and sees that she has requested a special system that will be quite a bit more expensive than what is generally allowed.
- Amadou returns to the Manage New Hires application and the On Boarding page and clicks on the already opened Purchase New Equipment page.
- He fills out a form that requests a personal computer that is more expensive than the allowed amount.
- A task is generated for Lucille Suarez (2nd line manager) to approve the larger purchase.
- Lucille goes to the Manager Workbench and sees a new task in the Task List portlet and clicks on the new task.
- She completes the task of approving the purchase by clicking the Approve button in the Current Task portlet.
- Rita Ferrar (the Office Manager) logs on to IBM WebSphere Portal and sees that she has been assigned the task to allocate office space for a new hire.
- She completes the office allocation task for Heather.
- The workflow task for the new employee is now listed with a status of "Complete" in the Workflow List portlet.
Parent Topic
Define workflow