The process is the design for how a series of tasks is done. When a process is started (by someone in your organization or even anonymously by someone completing a form at a Web site), work items are created for the potential owners, that is, all the people who can work on a particular activity.
When you claim an activity, you become the owner of that activity. Only you and the business process administrator can work on that activity in that particular instance of the process. If your work is complex or involved, you can save intermediate stages of it. When you finish the work, you complete the activity. The resulting information is saved and is then available to subsequent activities in the process. Navigation of the process continues until all of the activities are complete.
<bpel:invoke partnerLink="null" portType="QName" operation="ncName" inputVariable="ncname" outputVariable="ncname"> <wpc:staff> <wpc:potentialOwner>staffQueryVerb</wpc:potentialOwner> <wpc:editor>staffQueryVerb</wpc:editor> <wpc:reader>staffQueryVerb</wpc:reader> <!-- Client-specific settings go here --> </wpc:staff> <!-- standard activity elements go here --> </bpel:invoke>
Parent topic: About business processes