Business Process Choreographer Explorer navigation pane

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 (Search icon), to search for objects, or to define a personalized view.

Additional actions are available from the pop-up menu depending on the view type. An icon indicates whether a pop-up menu is available.
  • To delete the view, click the Delete icon (Delete icon).
  • To modify the view, click the Edit icon (Edit icon).
  • To create a copy of the view and modify the copy, click the Copy icon (Copy icon).
  • To move the view up or down in the list, click the Up icon (Up icon) or the Down icon (Down icon).

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.

Related concepts
Business Process Choreographer Explorer user interface

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