In this tutorial, you will learn how to monitor instances of your business process at run time. The tutorial will help you become familiar with the Active Instances view. You will configure the Active Instances view to display active instances of the Order Processing process, set filter criteria to display only instances for orders that are approved or in progress and whose order value is more than 1000 USD. Katherine James, the line of business manager in ABC organization (a book and stationary retailer) wants to monitor active customer orders.
Katherine James will view runtime instances of the Active Customer Order business process. She will need to sort the instances and drill down to their details. One or more instances will require her to take administrative action. You have created for Katherine James the "Active Customer Orders" portal page (dashboard) and then added a copy of the Active Instances view, named Active Customer Orders. You will start to configure the view and set filter criteria for the instances. When Katherine looks at the configured view, she will sort the displayed instances based on certain business measures, drill down to view details of one instances, and then perform administrative actions upon this instance.
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