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Validate & Launch
  Validate using the Validate tool
  Preferences - workflow
  Create a valid workflow map
  Launch a workflow from Process Designer
   

Launch a workflow from Process Designer

When you are ready to test a workflow definition, you can launch it directly from Process Designer. Before you launch, we suggest that you validate the workflow definition and correct any errors (see Validate the workflow definition).

The Launch tool automates the following activities:

  • Validates the workflow definition (checks for invalid expressions and routing conditions) if you have not disabled validation in the Preferences dialog.
  • Transfers the workflow definition to the workflow database. See About transfer for additional information.
  • Launches the workflow, displaying the Launch step for the workflow author.

To make a workflow definition available for production use by others, you must check in the workflow definition to an object store or library that has the Workflow definition document class. If you use the Launch command to run the workflow from Process Designer, the program will prompt you to save. If you do not want to save the workflow definition to the object store or library prior to launching the workflow, you can disable the automatic Add/Check in feature in the workflow preferences. See Preferences - Workflow for additional information.

To launch the open workflow definition

  1. Click Launch Launch tool on the Process Designer toolbar, then do one of the following, depending on whether you have previously saved the workflow to an object store or library.
    • If you have never saved the workflow definition to the object store or library, you are prompted to save the workflow definition. After you complete the save, the launch processor specified in the workflow definition displays.
    • If you have previously saved the workflow definition, but have since made changes, your modified workflow definition is checked in and immediately checked out again for you. (Note that the version number of the workflow definition in the title bar increments by 1.) The launch processor specified in the workflow definition displays.
    • If you have previously saved the workflow definition and have not made changes, the launch processor specified in the workflow definition displays.
  2. On the Launch processor page, follow the Launch instructions to enter the appropriate information, then click the Launch button.
   

TIP Once you complete the launch step, look in your Inbox for work assigned to you.