Use the navigation pane to access views that you use to administer
business process and human task objects, such as process instances and work
assignments. The default user interface contains links to predefined views
for business processes and tasks. You can also define your own views and add
these to the navigation pane.
Available actions
The following actions are available
in the navigation pane:
- Navigate to a view.
Click the view name to navigate to that view.
- Collapse and expand a group.
Click the plus sign (+) beside an item
in the navigation pane to expand it, or click the minus sign (-) to collapse
the item. You can also click the item itself to toggle between its expanded
and collapsed state.
- Search.
Click the Search icon (
), to search for objects, or to define
a personalized view.
Predefined views in the default navigation pane
The
default navigation pane contains the following groups of views. The views
that are shown in the navigation pane in your Business Process Choreographer
Explorer might differ depending on whether your system administrator has added
views to, or removed views from the navigation pane.
- Process templates
- The process templates group contains the following view:
- My Process Templates
This view shows a list of process templates. From this view you can
display information about the process template and its structure, display
a list of process instances that are associated with a template, and start
process instances.
- Process instances
- The process instances group contains the following views:
- Started By Me
- This view shows the process instances that you started. From this view,
you can monitor the progress of the process instance, and list the activities,
processes, or tasks that are related to it.
- Administered By Me
- This view shows the process instances that you are authorized to administer.
From this view, you can act on the process instance, for example, to suspend
and resume a process, or monitor the progress of the activities in a process
instance.
- Critical Processes
- This view shows process instances in the running state that contain activities
in the stopped state. From this view, you can act on the process instances,
or list the activities and then act on them.
- Terminated Processes
- This view shows process instances that are in the terminated state. From
this view, you can act on these process instances.
- Failed Compensations
- This view shows the compensation actions that have failed for microflows.
- Activity instances
- The activity instances group does not contain any views in the default
navigation pane.
- Task templates
- The task templates group contains the following view:
- My Task Templates
- This view shows a list of task templates. From this view you can create
and start a task instance, and display a list of task instances that are associated
with a template.
- Task instances
- The task instances group contains the following views:
- My Tasks
- This view shows a list of the task instances that you are authorized to
work with. From this view, you can work on a task instance, release a task
instance that you claimed, or transfer a task instance to another user.
- All Tasks
- This view shows all of the tasks for which you are the owner, potential
owner, or editor. From this view, you can work on a task instance, release
a task instance that you claimed, or transfer a task instance to another user.
- Initiated By Me
- This view shows the task instances that you initiated. From this view,
you can work on a task instance, release a task instance that you claimed,
or transfer a task instance to another user.
- Administered By Me
- This view shows the task instances that you are authorized to administer.
From this view, you can act on the task instance, for example, to suspend
and resume a process, to create work items for the task instance, or to display
a list of the current work items for the task instance.
- My Escalations
- This view shows all of the escalations for the logged on user.
View types
The navigation pane can contain the following
types of views. Depending on the view, additional actions are available from
the pop-up menu.
- Predefined views in the default navigation pane.
These groups of views
are available only if the navigation pane has not been changed by the system
administrator in the Customize Navigation Tree and Login View page.
A pop-up menu is not available for these views.
- Customized views and predefined views that were added to the navigation
pane by the system administrator. Pop-up menus are available for the system
administrator but not for business users.
- The predefined views are indicated by the Predefined view icon:
. A system
administrator can use the pop-up menu to change the position of these views
in the navigation pane.
- The customized views are indicated by the Custom view icon:
. A system administrator
can delete, edit, copy, and move these views.
- Personalized views.
These views are indicated by the Custom
view icon:
. These views can be deleted, edited, copied, and moved by the user
that created the view.