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Creating human workflows

Human workflows are business process flows that include human interactions. Each process has a specification that defines the inputs and outputs of the process, and a process diagram that visually represents the internal details of the process flow. The first stage in creating a human workflow solution is to model the workflow using WebSphere® Business Modeler Advanced.

To create a workfloiw model, complete the following high-level steps:

  1. Model the process flow, data, and resources of your business process. Click this link to go to the topic for WebSphere Business Modeler.
    Tip: You might want to draft your process model in the basic modeling mode. However, because the process is to be run in WebSphere Process Server, you need to switch to using the WebSphere Process Server modeling mode during the development of your model to remove any implementation errors. Click this link to go to the topic for WebSphere Business Modeler.
  2. Model the human tasks that are needed by your business process. Click this link to go to the topic for WebSphere Business Modeler.
  3. To specify the information that you want to monitor, associate business measures with your process model. Click this link to go to the topic for WebSphere Business Modeler.
  4. Specify the runtime monitoring information that you want to gather. You can collect process information in WebSphere Business Monitor that can be returned to WebSphere Business Modeler for process improvement. Click this link to go to the topic for WebSphere Business Modeler.
  5. Optional: Modify the technical attributes of the process and tasks. Alternatively, leave the specification of the attribute values to be done in WebSphere Integration Developer. Click this link to go to the topic for WebSphere Business Modeler.
  6. Validate your process model and remove the errors. Use the Errors view to identify these errors. If you export a process model that contains errors, the project that is imported into WebSphere Integration Developer will be flawed by unresolved references. Click this link to go to the topic for WebSphere Business Modeler.
  7. Export your process model using the WebSphere Integration Developer export. The BPEL generated from WebSphere Business Modeler uses the IBM® extensions to BPEL. Click this link to go to the topic for WebSphere Business Modeler.
  8. Export your monitor models as a project interchange file. A monitor model is created for each top-level process. Exporting the monitor models at the same time as the processes ties the business measures directly to the implementation and automatically creates the events and other elements for monitoring the processes with WebSphere Business Monitor. Click this link to go to the topic for WebSphere Business Modeler.

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