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Oracle Workflow User's Guide

1. A logically isolated software environment such as a host machine or database instance Timeout The amount of time during which a notification activity must be performed before the Workflow Engine transitions to an error process or an alternate activity if one is defined Transition The relationship that defines the completion of one activity and the activation of another activity within a process In a process diagram the arrow drawn between two activities represents a transition Workflow Definitions Loader A concurrent program that lets you upload and download workflow definitions between a flat file and a database Workflow Engine The Oracle Workflow component that implements a workflow process definition The Workflow Engine manages the state of all activities for an item automatically executes functions and sends notifications maintains a history of completed activities and detects error conditions and starts error processes The Workflow Engine is implemented in server PL SQL and activated when a call to an engine API is made Glossary 5 A Access to Worklist 3 27 3 35 Advanced search for notifications 3 41 Advanced Worklist 3 28 Attachments Oracle Applications attachments 3 30 Automatic Notification Handler 3 22 Automatic notification routing 3 35 Automatic responses 3 22 Automatic routing 3 22 B Business Event System 1 2 Cc Certificate based signatures 3 32 D Delegating no
2. 5 Viewing Error Information for a Workflow page 4 6 Viewing Workflows in the Status Monitor When you access the Status Monitor you can search for the workflows you want to review You can only search for workflows that you own To Search for Workflows in the Status Monitor 1 Use a web browser to navigate to the self service Status Monitor using a responsibility and navigation path specified by your system administrator When you initially navigate to the Status Monitor the Workflows page is displayed by default See Oracle Workflow User Navigation Paths page A 1 To locate specific workflows enter search criteria in the Search region The main search option is e Status Choose the status of the workflows you want to review or choose Any Status to display workflows in any status e In Process Workflows that do not have an end date including errored workflows e Complete Workflows that have an end date e Error Workflows that do not have an end date and have at least one errored activity You can also enter additional search criteria to search for workflows by other workflow characteristics To show the additional options if they are hidden select the Show More Search Options link To hide these options if they are shown select the Hide Search Options link The additional search criteria are e Workflow Started Choose Today This Week last seven days Last 2 Weeks last fourteen days Last 30 Days Last
3. Choose Create Rule Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 23 Notification Rules Page List E Notification Rules SYSADMIN Netscape B Noticationues OP ORACLE Product Survey Survey Survey name Delegate CDOUGLAS Y Create Rule 3 Inthe Item Type poplist field select the item type to which this rule applies or select lt All gt if you want this rule to apply to notifications associated with any item type Create New Rule Page Item Type Create Routing Rule SYSADMIN Netscape ER New Rule RAE 2 lt All gt Al Document Management i Item Type JEvent System Demonstration Periodic Alert Product Surve Next Cancel 4 Choose Next to proceed or choose Cancel if you want to cancel this rule and return to the previous page 5 If you selected lt All gt as the item type to apply the rule to then skip to step 8 page 3 25 If you selected a specific item type then proceed to the next step to choose a notification from that item type to which you want your rule to apply 6 In the Notification field select the notification message to which this rule applies or select lt All gt if you want this rule to apply to all notifications in the item type 3 24 Oracle Workflow User s Guide 10 11 Create New Rule Page Notification Create Routing Rule SYSADMIN Type WFSURV Netscape ORACLE Survey Survey name Notification Survey r
4. In the Comments to include in notification field enter any text that you want to append to the notification when the rule is applied The comments appear in a special Prior comments field when the notification is reassigned or automatically responded to Choose the action that you want this rule to perform e Reassign to forward the notification to a designated role e Respond respond to the message with a set of predefined response values e Deliver Notifications to me regardless of any general rules leave the notification in the your inbox and do nothing You can define a rule with this Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 25 action to exclude a certain subset of notifications from a more encompassing rule For example suppose you have a rule that forwards all your notification messages to another role but you want to exclude a subset of notifications from that rule To accomplish this you can define a new rule that applies only to that subset of notifications whose action is to Deliver Notifications to me 12 If your rule action is Reassign to click on the up arrow icon to display a window that lets you search for a role to reassign to See Using a List of Values page 3 21 13 After choosing a role specify how you wish to reassign the notifications Select Delegate Authority for Responding to Notifications if you want to give the new role authority to respond to the notification on your beha
5. Oracle Internet Directory and you need to enter password based signatures your system administrator must set the Applications SSO Login Types profile option to either Local or Both for you and you must have a valid password defined in Oracle Application Object Library Your single sign on password can be different than your Oracle Application Object Library password If so you must use your Oracle Application Object Library password to sign notifications See Implementing Password based Signatures with Single Sign On Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide Certificate based digital signature You must sign your response with a valid X 509 certificate issued by a certificate authority To set up for certificate based digital signatures 1 Obtain an X 509 certificate and private key from a certificate authority The certificate and key should be provided in a PKCS 12 file with an extension of p12 or pfx Obtain the certificate authority s root certificate and any intermediate certificates required for your type of certificate Also for each root and intermediate certificate obtain a URL specifying the location from which the corresponding Certificate Revocation List CRL can be downloaded 3 2 Oracle Workflow User s Guide If your system administrator has already obtained and installed the root certificate for your certificate authority and the intermediate certificates for your type of certificate you can skip this step 3 L
6. Subject a description of the notification Sent date when the notification was delivered Due date by which the notification should be completed 3 28 Oracle Workflow User s Guide e Status open closed or canceled status of the notification This column is displayed when you view all notifications e End Date date when the notification was closed or canceled This column is displayed when you view all notifications Select a column heading to sort the list by that column By default the list is sorted by sent date from most recent to oldest and then by subject in alphabetical order To collectively reassign a group of notifications select the notifications you want and select the Reassign button the Delegate button or the Transfer button e The Reassign button appears if you have access to reassign notifications to another user either by delegating the notifications or by transferring complete ownership of the notifications e The Delegate button appears if you only have access to delegate the notifications e The Transfer button appears if you only have access to transfer ownership of the notifications See To Reassign a Notification to Another User page 3 32 and Setting the WE Notification Reassign Mode Profile Option Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide Note Your workflow may include special logic to restrict reassignment of notifications If any of the notifications that you selected are restricted in this way
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8. you cannot access any other Oracle Workflow features unless you are logged in See Responses through the Notification Detail Link Attachment Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide If this notification requires a password based signature or certificate based digital signature in your response you cannot respond to the notification through e mail In this case the notification informs you that an electronic signature is required and directs you to access the online version of the notification instead Navigate to the Notification Details web page to submit your response See To View the Details of a Notification page 3 30 Note Electronic signatures are currently supported only for the version of Oracle Workflow embedded in Oracle Applications If this notification includes sensitive content that cannot be sent in e mail for security reasons the notification e mail message directs you to access the online version of the notification instead Navigate to the Notification Details page to view the content of the notification and submit your response See To View the Details of a Notification page 3 30 To Reassign a Notification to Another User Use the Forward feature in your mail reader to forward or reassign an e mail notification to another user Do not use the Reassign button on the HTML attachment Related Topics Important When you forward a notification to another user via e mail you are simply asking that user to respon
9. 2 6 Index 2 URLs for Find Notifications Routing Rules web page 3 23 for Find Notifications web page 3 15 for Notifications Routing Rules web page 3 22 for Oracle Workflow home page 2 1 for Worklist web page 3 15 User Preferences web page 2 3 User preferences document management home 2 5 language and territory 2 5 notification preference 2 5 V Vacation forwarding 3 22 Vacation rules overriding 3 37 overview 3 35 View notifications e mail summary 3 14 electronic mail 3 3 Notification Web page 3 15 W Web home page 2 1 self service 2 6 Workflow definitions loading 1 3 Workflow Definitions Loader 1 3 Workflow Designer Oracle Workflow Builder 1 2 Workflow Engine 1 2 Workflow Monitor Self Service 4 1 Worklist for standalone Oracle Workflow 3 18 Worklist access 3 27 3 35 Index 3
10. 60 Days or Any Time to specify the start date of the workflows you want to review All the start date ranges include the current date for example Last 2 Weeks includes today as well as the previous thirteen days e Workflow Type Select the workflow type you want to review e Workflow Enter the identifier for the workflow you want to review You can enter a partial value to search for workflows whose identifiers begin with that value Select the Go button to perform your search The Results region displays the workflows that match your search criteria For each workflow the list displays the status workflow type workflow identifier start date and completion date e Select the Workflow Type Workflow or Started column heading to sort the list by that column e To view the error details for an errored workflow select the error icon or the error link in the Status column You can use the monitor buttons to drill down to additional information for a workflow 4 2 Oracle Workflow User s Guide e To review the notifications sent by a workflow select the workflow and select the Notification History button e To view the status diagram for a workflow select the workflow and select the Status Diagram button e To view comments and other information gathered for closed response required notifications in a workflow select the workflow and select the Participant Responses button Related Topics Accessing the Self Serv
11. Oracle Workflow can decide which path to take based on the result of a stored procedure you can use the power of Overview of Oracle Workflow 1 1 Java and of PL SQL the language of the Oracle Database to express any business rule that affects a workflow process See Workflow Processes page 1 4 Delivering Electronic Notifications Oracle Workflow extends the reach of business process automation throughout the enterprise and beyond to include any e mail or Internet user Oracle Workflow lets people receive notifications of items awaiting their attention via e mail and act based on their e mail responses You can even view your list of things to do including necessary supporting information and take action using a standard Web browser Integrating Systems Oracle Workflow lets you set up subscriptions to business events which can launch workflows or enable messages to be propagated from one system to another when business events occur You can communicate events among systems within your own enterprise and with external systems as well In this way you can implement point to point messaging integration or use Oracle Workflow as a messaging hub for more complex system integration scenarios You can model business processes that include complex routing and processing rules to handle events powerfully and flexibly Major Features and Definitions Oracle Workflow Builder Oracle Workflow Builder is a graphical tool that lets workflow devel
12. Oracle Workflow displays an error message when you select the Reassign Delegate or Transfer button In this case you should deselect the restricted notifications before performing the reassignment See HIDE_REASSIGN Attribute Oracle Workflow Developer s Guide You can navigate to the full details of any notification and act on the notification by clicking on the notification s Subject link or by selecting the notification and then choosing Open To define vacation rules select the Vacation Rules link See To View and Maintain Vacation Rules page 3 36 To grant access to your worklist to another user select the Worklist Access link See To Grant Access to Your Worklist page 3 35 To view another user s worklist select the Switch User button The Switch User page displays the user whose worklist you were previously viewing and the list of users whose worklists you can access Select the user whose worklist you want to view Note If a user has an e mail address defined in Oracle Applications you can select the address link in the Email column to send e mail to that user When you view a worklist other than your own the Advanced Worklist page displays the name of the user to whom the worklist belongs You can view and act on that user s notifications However you cannot define vacation rules for that user or grant access to that user s worklist to anyone else The Vacation Rules link and the Worklist Access link apply on
13. This guide describes the upgrade process and lists database and product specific upgrade tasks You must be either at Release 10 7 NCA SmartClient or character mode or Release 11 0 to upgrade to Release 111 You cannot upgrade to Release 11i directly from releases prior to 10 7 Maintaining Oracle Applications Use this guide to help you run the various AD utilities such as AutoUpgrade Auto Patch AD Administration AD Controller AD Relink License Manager and others It contains how to steps screenshots and other information that you need to run the AD utilities This guide also provides information on maintaining the Oracle Applications file system and database Oracle Applications System Administrator s Guide This guide provides planning and reference information for the Oracle Applications system administrator It contains information on how to define security customize menus and online help and manage concurrent processing Oracle Alert User s Guide This guide explains how to define periodic and event alerts to monitor the status of your Oracle Applications data Other Implementation Documentation Oracle Applications Product Update Notes Use this guide as a reference for upgrading an installation of Oracle Applications It provides a history of the changes to individual Oracle Applications products between xi Release 11 0 and Release 11i It includes new features enhancements and changes made to database objects p
14. View Favorites Tools Help EI ws Oracle Workflow gt 2 ORACLE Ci Worklist 0 open notifications Find Notifications 2 Notification Rules A _ Find Processes A S User Preferences 2 The web page identifies the current version of Oracle Workflow 3 A toolbar appears in the upper left corner of the Oracle Workflow home page as well as on every other Oracle Workflow web page The Home icon returns you to the Oracle Workflow home page The name of the current page appears in the middle of the toolbar The Logout icon logs you out of your current Oracle Workflow web session and the Help icon displays online help for the current screen Some of the Event Manager web pages also include a Query icon that lets you enter query details to search for Event Manager objects 4 Choose the Worklist link to display your list of workflow notifications You can close or reassign your notifications directly from the Worklist or you can drill down to the details of each specific notification and close reassign or respond to them individually See To View Notifications from the Worklist page 3 18 5 Choose the Find Notifications link to locate notifications that match specific criteria and act on those notifications See To Find Notifications page 3 16 6 Choose the Notification Rules link to view and define your automatic notification routing rules If you are logged in as a role with workflow administrator privileges th
15. WALKER Requisition 20002 Requisition for a 29 MAR 2001 29 MAR 2001 Flat Screen Monitor for 2 500 00 requires your approval Requisition K WALKER Requisition 20001 Requisition for 29 MAR 2001 29 MAR 2001 Office Supplies for 2 500 00 requires your approval Requisition K WALKER Requisition 10002 Requisition for very 28 MAR 2001 28 MAR 2001 small mobile phone for 3 000 00 requires your approval fe Close Reassign The Worklist displays the following information for each notification e Priority a high or low priority icon represents the urgency of the notification e Type the item type with which the workflow process and notification is associated e From the role from which the notification was sent The From role for a notification is determined by the FROM_ROLE message attribute See FROM_ROLE Attribute Oracle Workflow Developer s Guide e Subject a description of the notification Note If a notification is Open and requires a response a Response Required icon appears next to its Subject link e Sent date when the notification was delivered e Due date by which the notification should be completed Click on any column heading to sort your notifications by that column in ascending order A Find icon in the toolbar lets you navigate back to the Find Notifications screen at any time so you can use search criteria to reduce the Worklist to a smalle
16. a notification that has been canceled you get a message informing you that the notification was canceled Similarly if you respond to a notification that was already previously responded to you get a message informing you that the notification is closed 6 If another user sent you this notification with a request for more information include the response template in your reply and insert the information you want to provide between the quotes following the response prompt When you are satisfied with your response use the Send command of the mail application to send your reply 7 If this notification requires a password based signature or certificate based digital signature in your response you cannot respond to the notification through e mail In Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 5 this case the notification informs you that an electronic signature is required and directs you to access the online version of the notification instead Navigate to the Notification Details web page to submit your response See To View the Details of a Notification page 3 30 Note Electronic signatures are currently supported only for the version of Oracle Workflow embedded in Oracle Applications 8 If this notification includes sensitive content that cannot be sent in e mail for security reasons the notification e mail message directs you to access the online version of the notification instead Navigate to the Notification Detail
17. a notification to a user or role that may optionally request a response a business event or a subflow that itself is made up of a more granular set of activities A workflow process is initiated when an application calls a set of Oracle Workflow Engine APIs The Workflow Engine takes over by driving the relevant work item defined by the application through a specific workflow process definition According to the workflow process definition the Workflow Engine performs automated steps and invokes appropriate agents when external processing is required The following diagram depicts a simplified workflow process definition that routes a requisition to a manager or set of managers for approval 1 4 Oracle Workflow User s Guide Sample Workflow Process in Oracle Workflow Builder Ed oracle Workflow Builder 2 6 3 E Oo x File Edit Yiew Window Help EI Navigator 10l x Ed Requisition Approval olala amp slal XE Tel eef ele 2 IWFDEMO E Requisition FEZ Attributes I Processes Notify Approver Ee Requisition Approval o Yes D I Notifications Verify Authority Approve Requisition Notify Requestor of End Approve 24 Notify Requestor No j Approval 14 Notify Requestor of E True N pprove ney Notify Requestor of F Record Requisition i Notify Requestor of F Bm Forward nag Notify Requisition Ar js Reject yay ReminderApprovalt Start Select Approver And Notify Approver Re
18. an Oracle Applications form can update many tables at once But when you modify Oracle Applications data using anything other than Oracle Applications you may change a row in one table without making corresponding changes in related tables If your tables get out of synchronization with each other you risk retrieving erroneous information and you risk unpredictable results throughout Oracle Applications When you use Oracle Applications to modify your data Oracle Applications automatically checks that your changes are valid Oracle Applications also keeps track of who changes information If you enter information into database tables using database tools you may store invalid information You also lose the ability to track who has changed your information because SQL Plus and other database tools do not keep a record of changes xiii 1 Overview of Oracle Workflow This chapter introduces you to the concept of a workflow process and to the major features of Oracle Workflow This chapter covers the following topics e Overview of Oracle Workflow for Users Overview of Oracle Workflow for Users Oracle Workflow delivers a complete workflow management system that supports business process based integration Its technology enables modeling automation and continuous improvement of business processes routing information of any type according to user defined business rules E business is accelerating the demand for integration of ap
19. complete filter value that you want to match For the other filter operators you can enter a partial value unless you are using the Sent Due and Closed search options which always require a complete date in the date format you chose in your Oracle E Business Suite general preferences The filter value fields for all search options are case insensitive If you leave the filter operator and filter value blank for a search option that option will not be included in the search Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 45 Note The greater than less than after and before filter operators are not inclusive For example a search on the Sent option with the after operator displays only notifications sent after the date you specify not notifications sent on that date itself e From Enter the role from which the notifications were sent e Type Enter the display name of the item type to which the workflow process that sent the notification belongs e Subject Enter the subject line of the notifications e Sent Enter the date when the notifications were delivered using the date format you chose in your Oracle E Business Suite general preferences Select the field s calendar icon to display a calendar from which you can select a date e Due Enter the date by which the notifications should be completed using the date format you chose in your Oracle E Business Suite general preferences Select the field s calendar icon
20. depends on whether the current date falls within the rule s effective dates 2 To update a rule select the Update icon for that rule See To Create or Update a Vacation Rule page 3 36 3 To delete a rule select the Delete icon for that rule 4 To create a new rule select the Create Rule button See To Create or Update a Vacation Rule page 3 36 To Create or Update a Vacation Rule 1 Navigate to the Vacation Rules page and choose to create or update a rule e If you choose to create a new rule the Vacation Rule Item Type page appears first Continue with step 2 e If you choose to update an existing rule the Vacation Rule Response page appears Skip to step 6 2 In the Vacation Rule Item Type page select the item type to which this rule applies e By default the list of values for the Item Type field displays those item types for which you have previously received at least one notification Your workflow administrator can also add item types to this list to let you create vacation rules to handle other notifications you may receive in the future 3 36 Oracle Workflow User s Guide e If your workflow administrator has enabled creating generic vacation rules you can select the All option in the Item Type field In this case the rule to applies to notifications associated with any item type See Setting Up Vacation Rule Options Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide Choose the Next button to proceed e If y
21. e What features did you like most about this manual If you find any errors or have any other suggestions for improvement please indicate the title and part number of the documentation and the chapter section and page number if available You can send comments to us in the following ways e Electronic mail appsdoc_us oracle com e FAX 650 506 7200 Attn Oracle Applications Technology Group Documentation Manager e Postal service Oracle Applications Technology Group Documentation Manager Oracle Corporation 500 Oracle Parkway Redwood Shores CA 94065 USA If you would like a reply please give your name address telephone number and electronic mail address optional If you have problems with the software please contact your local Oracle Support Services Preface Intended Audience Welcome to Release 2 6 4 of the Oracle Workflow User s Guide This guide assumes you have a working knowledge of the following e The principles and customary practices of your business area e Oracle Workflow If you have never used Oracle Workflow Oracle suggests you attend training classes available through Oracle University e The Oracle Applications graphical user interface To learn more about the Oracle Applications graphical user interface read the Oracle Applications User s Guide See Related Documents on page viii for more Oracle Applications product information TTY Access to Oracle Support Services Oracle provides
22. in a new window depending on the notification 4 The related applications section may include attachment icons These icons link to additional information sources for the notification There are three types of attachment links e A reference URL link that opens another Web browser window and connects to a specified URL e A PL SQL PL SQL CLOB or PL SQL BLOB document link that displays the contents of a document generated from a PL SQL function Such documents can contain text HTML images or application files such as PDF or RTF documents e An Oracle Applications form link that drills down to an Oracle Applications form or Oracle Self Service Web Applications page referenced by the underlying message attribute Depending on how the message attribute is defined the form or page can automatically display appropriate context information Note You must use a responsibility with the appropriate security to open a linked form or Oracle Applications Framework page If the form link or URL link is defined to use a particular responsibility you must have that responsibility assigned to you to open the form or page Otherwise Oracle Applications displays a list from which you can select the responsibility you want to use You cannot update information in a form that is attached for reference only 5 If you want to view your next notification in the Notification Details page after responding to this notification select the Display Next
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24. page uses translated versions of the notification status notification priority yes and no values In this case you should enter the translated values for the Status Priority Response Required FYI and From Me search options 5 Select the Go button to perform your search You can also select the Clear button to clear the search option fields and remove any additional search options you added so that you can enter new search criteria 6 The Advanced Search page displays the notifications that match your search criteria For each notification the list displays the following information e From the role from which the notification was sent This column is displayed when you view notifications sent to you 3 42 Oracle Workflow User s Guide 10 11 e Type display name of the item type to which the workflow process that sent the notification belongs e Subject a description of the notification e Sent date when the notification was delivered e Due date by which the notification should be completed e Status open closed or canceled status of the notification Select the From Type Subject Sent Due or Status column heading to sort the list by that column By default the list is sorted by sent date from most recent to oldest and then by subject in alphabetical order To collectively reassign a group of notifications select the notifications you want and select the Reassign button See To Reassign a Notifi
25. the originating system partitions in the Oracle Workflow directory service See Setting Up a Directory Service for Oracle Workflow Embedded in Oracle Applications Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide Then specify how you want to reassign the notifications e Delegate your response Select this option if you want to give the new user authority to respond to the notification on your behalf but you want to retain ownership of the notification yourself For example a manager might delegate all vacation scheduling approvals to an assistant e Transfer notification ownership Select this option if you want to give the new user complete ownership of and responsibility for the notification For example use this option if you should not have received the notification and you want to send it to the correct recipient or to another recipient for resolution A transfer may have the effect of changing the approval hierarchy for the notification For example a manager might transfer a notification about a certain project to another manager who now owns that project Important Your workflow administrator may implement special logic to verify that the role that you attempt to delegate or transfer the notifications to is legitimate or to restrict reassignment of notifications altogether If so you may get a warning message to that effect when you attempt to create a reassigning rule 11 If your rule action is Respond set the values that you
26. this case the notification informs you that an electronic signature is required and directs you to access the online version of the notification instead Navigate to the Notification Details web page to submit your response See To View the Details of a Notification page 3 30 Note Electronic signatures are currently supported only for the version of Oracle Workflow embedded in Oracle Applications 9 If this notification includes sensitive content that cannot be sent in e mail for security reasons the notification e mail message directs you to access the online version of the notification instead Navigate to the Notification Details page to view the content of the notification and submit your response See To View the Details of a Notification page 3 30 To Respond to a Plain Text E mail Notification with an HTML Attachment 1 Your plain text e mail notification with attachments includes information that is helpful for you to respond to the notification Depending on the notification the information may appear inline in the message body as links to other reference sources or as attachments to the message In addition the notification always includes at least two attachments e HTML Message Body an HTML formatted version of the notification message e Notification Detail Link a direct link to your notification displayed in the Notification Details web page 2 When you are done reviewing all the information for the notification yo
27. values entered Select this option to locate only notifications that match all your search criteria e Search results where each may contain any value entered Select this option to locate all notifications that match at least one of your search criteria Enter the search criteria you want to use to locate notifications The following search options are displayed by default e Subject e From e Message Attribute e Sent To display additional search options select the notification property you want from the Add Column pull down menu and select the Add button Note You can choose to display more than one search option of the same type if you want to apply several search criteria to the same notification property For example if you want to search for notifications that were sent between two particular dates you can display two Sent search options Set one option to search for all notifications sent after the first date and set the other option to search for all notifications sent before the second date If you choose Search results where each must contain all values entered then the search will display notifications that match both search criteria with sent dates falling in between the two dates that you specified For each search option select a filter operator and then enter a filter value to specify the notifications you want to display For the is filter operator you should enter a complete filter value that you want t
28. want to automatically respond with Viewing Notifications from the Personal Worklist Note The Personal Worklist is currently available only for the version of Oracle Workflow embedded in Oracle Applications Before you can access the Personal Worklist your system administrator must add it to the menu for an Oracle Applications responsibility that is assigned to you See Adding Worklist Functions to User Responsibilities Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide The Personal Worklist lets you choose which notifications to display in your Worklist and what information to display for those notifications In addition to the preconfigured worklist viewing options provided by Oracle Workflow you can create personal worklist views by defining a set of filtering criteria that determine what types of notifications and what notification properties are included in the display Alternatively you can perform one time searches to locate notifications you want to view You can also save the search criteria as a personal worklist view to repeat the same search later When viewing notifications from the Personal Worklist you can respond to your notifications reassign notifications to another user request more information about a notification from another user respond to requests for information and define vacation rules to handle notifications automatically in your absence 3 38 Oracle Workflow User s Guide To View Notifications from the Personal Wo
29. which you can select a date e Type Enter the display name of the item type to which the workflow process that sent the notification belongs e Status Enter open closed or canceled as the notification status e To Enter the role to which the notifications were sent e Information Requested From Enter the role to which notifications that are requests for more information were sent e Due Enter the date by which the notifications should be completed using the date format you chose in your Oracle E Business Suite general preferences Select the field s calendar icon to display a calendar from which you can select a date e Closed Enter the date when the notifications were closed or canceled using the date format you chose in your Oracle E Business Suite general preferences Select the field s calendar icon to display a calendar from which you can select a date e Priority Enter high normal or low as the notification priority e Response Required Enter yes or no to specify whether the notifications require a response from the recipient e FYI Enter yes or no to specify whether the notifications are for your information FYI only and do not require a response e Notification ID Enter the numerical notification identifier e From Me Enter yes or no to specify whether the notifications are sent from you Note If your installation of Oracle Workflow is set up in a language other than English the Advanced Search
30. 3 2 and WF_SIG_POLICY Attribute Oracle Workflow Developer s Guide To Reassign a Notification to Another User 1 Navigate to the Reassign Notifications page by one of the following methods 3 32 Oracle Workflow User s Guide e Inthe Advanced Worklist select one or more notifications and choose the Reassign button the Delegate button or the Transfer button e Inthe Notification Details page for a single notification choose the Reassign button the Delegate button or the Transfer button in the Response section of the notification e Choose to reassign a notification from the Status Monitor Important Your workflow may include special logic to restrict reassignment of notifications If so the Reassign button Delegate button or Transfer button may not be displayed in the Response section of the Notification Details page and you should not reassign the notification Also if any of the notifications that you selected in the Advanced Worklist are restricted in this way Oracle Workflow displays an error message when you select the Reassign Delegate or Transfer button In this case you should deselect the restricted notifications before performing the reassignment See HIDE_REASSIGN Attribute Oracle Workflow Developer s Guide If you are reassigning more than one notification you can choose a subject link in the list of selected notifications to review the details of an individual notification In the Assignee fields sele
31. L of the web agent configured for Oracle Workflow in your Web server See Setting Global User Preferences Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide e lt orderkey gt represents the key with which to order the list of notifications Valid values include PRIORITY MESSAGE TYPE SUBJECT BEGIN DATE DUE DATE END DATE and STATUS If you leave lt orderkey gt null the worklist will be ordered by PRIORITY and then by BEGIN DATE in descending order the notifications with the highest priority and the most recent date will be displayed first e lt status gt represents the status of the notifications you wish to display Valid values include OPEN CLOSED CANCELED and ERROR If you leave lt status gt null the URL will display notifications with a status of OPEN e lt user gt represents the internal name of the role to query notifications for You can only include this argument if you are logged in to the current web session as a role with workflow administrator privileges If your role does not have administrator privileges or if you leave lt user gt blank the URL displays notifications for your current role See Setting Global User Preferences Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide To display a worklist of notifications that match specific search criteria go to the Find Notifications web page by entering lt webagent gt wfa html find You can also navigate to the Notifications Worklist or Find Notifications web pages from the Or
32. Note The Participant Responses page lists only closed response required notifications To view information only FYI notifications or unanswered response required notifications view the complete notification history for the workflow See Viewing Notification History page 4 3 Viewing Notification Response Details The Notification Response Details page displays the following details about the selected response e Notification Subject The subject line of the notification e Respondent The user who responded to the notification To send e mail to the respondent select the user link e Original Recipient The user to whom the notification was originally sent If the original recipient is different than the respondent then the original recipient reassigned responsibility for replying to the respondent To send e mail to the original recipient select the user link e Notification Sent The date and time when the notification was sent e Response Received The date and time when the response was received Response The response value that is the result of the notification The Additional Response Information region lists any further response values requested in the notification in addition to the result response Related Topics Accessing the Self Service Monitor page 4 1 Viewing Error Information for a Workflow The Error Summary page shows error information for an errored workflow The page displays the workflow ide
33. Notification After My Response check box Otherwise Oracle Workflow displays the Worklist after you respond to a notification 3 30 Oracle Workflow User s Guide 6 Use the Response section to act on the notification If a notification requires a response but none of the responses affect the result of the notification activity the response prompts all appear as fields or pull down menus After you finish entering your response values submit your response by choosing the Submit button After you submit your response the status of the notification changes to Closed If a notification requires a response and one of the responses becomes the result of the notification activity then that determining response will appear last All other response prompts if any appear as fields or pull down menus before that prompt e If there are four or fewer possible result values for the final response prompt those values appear as a set of buttons After you finish entering your response values for any other response prompts choose the button for the result value you want When you choose one of these buttons you also submit your response to the notification e If there are more than four result values to choose from for the final response prompt those values appear in a pull down menu with a Submit button After you finish entering your response values for any other response prompts select the result value you want from the pull down menu and
34. Oracle Workflow User s Guide Release 2 6 4 Part No B15854 02 June 2005 ORACLE Oracle Workflow User s Guide Release 2 6 4 Part No B15854 02 Copyright O 2003 2005 Oracle All rights reserved Primary Author Siu Chang Clara Jaeckel Contributing Author Varsha Bhatia George Buzsaki John Cordes Mark Craig Avinash Dabholkar Mark Fisher Yongran Huang Kevin Hudson George Kellner Sai Kilaru Angela Kung David Lam Janet Lee Jin Liu Kenneth Ma Steve Mayze Santhana Natarajan Rajesh Raheja Varadarajan Rajaram Tim Roveda Robin Seiden Vijay Shanmugam Sachin Sharma Sheryl Sheh Allison Sparshott Susan Stratton Roshin Thomas The Programs which include both the software and documentation contain proprietary information they are provided under a license agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure and are also protected by copyright patent and other intellectual and industrial property laws Reverse engineering disassembly or decompilation of the Programs except to the extent required to obtain interoperability with other independently created software or as specified by law is prohibited The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice If you find any problems in the documentation please report them to us in writing This document is not warranted to be error free Except as may be expressly permitted in your license agreement for these Programs no part of these Progra
35. Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide A vacation rule can apply to messages of all item types to all messages belonging to a specific item type or to a specific type of message belonging to a specific item type Each time a notification is sent to you Oracle Workflow tests the notification against your vacation rules First Oracle Workflow checks whether you have any active rules for that specific message type If not it checks whether you have any active rules for that specific item type Finally it checks whether you have any active rules for messages of all item types As soon as it finds a match Oracle Workflow applies the rule and discontinues any further rule matching If a rule reassigns a notification Oracle Workflow performs rule matching again against the new recipient s list of rules Oracle Workflow maintains a count of the number of times it forwards a notification to detect perpetual forwarding cycles If a notification is automatically forwarded more than ten times Oracle Workflow assumes that a forwarding cycle has occurred and ceases executing any further forwarding rules marking the notification as being in error To View and Maintain Vacation Rules 1 Navigate to the Vacation Rules page by navigating to your Worklist and selecting the Vacation Rules link The list of your vacation rules includes rules that you defined yourself as well as any rules defined for you by an administrator A rule s active or inactive status
36. Oracle Workflow users and roles to a site s directory repository Event An occurrence in an internet or intranet application or program that might be significant to other objects in a system or to external agents Event Activity A business event modelled as an activity so that it can be included in a workflow process Event Data A set of additional details describing an event The event data can be structured as an XML document Together the event name event key and event data fully communicate what occurred in the event Event Key A string that uniquely identifies an instance of an event Together the event name event key and event data fully communicate what occurred in the event Event Message A standard Workflow structure for communicating business events defined by the datatype WF EVENT T The event message contains the event data as well as several header properties including the event name event key addressing attributes and error information Event Subscription A registration indicating that a particular event is significant to a system and specifying the processing to perform when the triggering event occurs Subscription processing can include calling custom code sending the event message to a workflow process or sending the event message to an agent External Functions Programs that are executed outside of the Oracle Database External Java Functions Java programs that are executed outsid
37. a Notification Web page 3 15 viewing from a web browser for Oracle Applications 3 26 viewing from web browser 3 14 Notifications Worklist Worklist web page 3 18 O Oracle Applications Manager 1 4 Oracle Workflow Builder 1 2 Oracle Workflow home page 2 1 self service 2 6 Oracle Workflow Manager 1 4 P Self Service Monitor error summary 4 6 notification history 4 3 overview 4 1 participant responses 4 6 searching for workflows 4 2 status diagram 4 3 Simple search for notifications 3 40 Status Monitor Self Service 4 1 Summary notifications 3 14 T Templated Response e mail 3 4 U Password based signatures 3 32 Personal Worklist 3 38 3 39 Personal worklist views creating 3 44 maintaining 3 43 PL SQL 1 3 Preferred notification method 3 1 R Reassign notifications in Notification Web page 3 21 in Self Service Monitor 4 3 via e mail 3 13 Reassign web page 3 21 Reassigning notifications 3 32 Requesting more information for notifications 3 34 Respond to notification HTML formatted e mail 3 8 plain text e mail using direct response 3 6 plain text e mail using templated response 3 4 plain text e mail with attachments 3 12 via Notification Web page 3 15 Routing automatic 3 22 notifications 3 35 Routing rules deleting 3 26 for a role 3 23 listing 3 22 overriding 3 25 updating 3 26 S Search for notifications 3 40 3 41 Self service home page
38. acation Rules link See To View and Maintain Vacation Rules page 3 36 To Perform a Simple Search for Notifications 1 Navigate to the Simple Search page 2 To locate specific notifications enter your search criteria The search options are e Subject Enter the subject line of the notification you want to display You can enter a partial value to search for notifications whose subjects contain that value This field is case insensitive e From Enter the role from which the notifications you want to display were sent You can enter a partial value to search for notifications whose from roles contain that value This field is case insensitive e Sent Enter the date when the notifications you want to display were delivered using the date format you chose in your Oracle E Business Suite general preferences Select the field s calendar icon to display a calendar from which you can select a date Select the Go button to perform your search 4 The Simple Search page displays the notifications that match your search criteria For each notification the list displays the following information e From the role from which the notification was sent e Type display name of the item type to which the workflow process that sent the notification belongs e Subject a description of the notification e Sent date when the notification was delivered e Due date by which the notification should be completed e Status open cl
39. acle Applications you may want to refer to other products guides to learn more about the workflows and business events they include You can read the guides online by choosing Library from the expandable menu on your Oracle Applications HTML help window by reading from the Oracle Applications Documentation Library CD included in your media pack or by using a Web browser with a URL that your system administrator provides If you require printed guides you can purchase them from the Oracle Store at http oraclestore oracle com Guides Related to All Products Oracle Applications User s Guide This guide explains how to enter data query run reports and navigate using the graphical user interface GUI available with this release of Oracle Workflow and any other Oracle Applications products This guide also includes information on setting user profiles as well as running and reviewing reports and concurrent processes You can access this user s guide online by choosing Getting Started with Oracle Applications from any Oracle Applications help file Oracle Workflow Documentation Set Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide This guide explains how to complete the setup steps necessary for any product that includes workflow enabled processes as well as how to monitor the progress of runtime workflow processes Oracle Workflow Developer s Guide This guide explains how to define new workflow business processes and customize
40. acle Workflow home page See Accessing the Oracle Workflow Home Page page 2 1 2 Ifyou are accessing any of the Oracle Workflow URLs for the first time in your web browser session you will be prompted for a valid username and password to log on 3 Enter your username and password 4 Choose OK If you have made an error you can clear the values and start over If you used the wfa html worklist URL skip to the Notification Worklist section page 3 18 Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 15 To Find Notifications 1 The Find Notifications window lets you enter search criteria to locate specific notifications If you are logged on to the current session as a regular workflow user you can specify criteria to search for any notification s you own The search criteria are e From enter a role to search for all notifications from that role The From role for a notification is determined by the FROM_ROLE message attribute See fFROM ROLE Attribute Oracle Workflow Developer s Guide e Status choose a notification status of Canceled Closed Invalid Reply or Open Choose All to display notifications of any status e Type choose the item type of the notification s Choose All to display notifications of any item type e Subject enter the subject of the notification you wish to search for This field accepts case insensitive text strings and interprets the percent sign as a wildcard e Sent enter the d
41. age other than English the personal worklist views use translated versions of the notification status notification priority yes and no values In this case you should enter the translated values for the Status Priority Response Required FYI and From Me search options 12 Select the Apply button to save the view and return to the Personalize Views page or select the Apply and View Results button to save the view and display it immediately in the Personal Worklist 3 46 Oracle Workflow User s Guide You can also select the Cancel button to return to the Personalize Views page without saving the view Alternatively you can select the Revert button to clear any changes you made to the view settings In the Create View page the settings revert to the default values while in the Update View or Duplicate View page the settings revert to the previously saved values for the existing view you are updating or duplicating Related Topics Viewing Notifications from a Web Browser for Oracle Applications page 3 26 Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 47 4 Monitoring Workflow Processes This chapter describes how to monitor the progress of a workflow process This chapter covers the following topics Monitoring Workflow Processes with the Self Service Monitor e Viewing Workflows in the Status Monitor e Viewing Notification History e Viewing a Status Diagram e Viewing Participant Responses e Viewing Error Inf
42. age to use the standard Workflow Open Mail for Outlook Express message template or if this notification is defined to use that template then a link called Click here to respond will appear in place of the links for individual responses The Click here to respond link provides access to your notification in the Notification Details web page Note that your Web browser must support JavaScript and Frames to open this link When you choose the Click here to respond link it automatically attempts to establish a web session with your web server In doing so it authenticates your access verifies that your notification is still open and displays a message if the notification is already closed If you are disconnected from your network however you will not be able to use the link Once you have accessed the Notification Details page you can respond directly to your notification from this page In this case you should skip the remaining steps 3 Each response link automatically generates a plain text e mail reply The reply contains the correct Reply To e mail address as well as a response template in the message body The response template consists of the required notification ID and access key that identify the notification you are responding to and a response prompt edited with your selected response Important Do not include any HTML formatting in the e mail response 4 Depending on the notification the auto generated e mail r
43. alization This appendix covers the following topics e Oracle Workflow User Personalizations Oracle Workflow User Personalizations Oracle Applications Framework Personalization provides the ability to customize Oracle self service Web application pages To personalize your pages you must log in as a user or with a responsibility for which the Personalize Self Service Defn profile option is set to Yes You can then choose the Personalize Page global button to create personalizations for an entire page or choose the Personalize link in a region to create personalizations for that region only Oracle Workflow supports several types of personalizations This appendix lists features that do not appear in the Oracle Workflow user Web pages by default but are available for you to add if you choose Many Oracle Workflow Web pages also let you perform other personalizations such as displaying additional information columns in a list changing the sort order of a list or hiding features you do not want to use To view all the personalizations that are available for a particular page choose the Personalize button for that page For more information about creating personalizations please refer to OracleMetaLink note 268969 1 Oracle Applications Framework Personalization Guide Self Service Home Page Close Button With the Close button you can select and close several notifications at the same time Ensure that the notifications you select d
44. already closed Depending on the configuration of your Oracle Workflow installation if you are not already logged in you may be prompted to log in before you can access the Notification Details page Otherwise if your configuration allows you can access the Notification Details page for this notification directly but you cannot access any other Oracle Workflow features unless you are logged in See Responses through the Notification Detail Link Attachment Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide You can respond directly to your notification from the Notification Details page bypassing the need to process your response through a notification mailer If you decide to respond from the Notification Details page skip the remaining steps See To View the Details of a Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 9 Notification page 3 20 or To View the Details of a Notification for Oracle Applications page 3 30 If your notification preference is HTML mail then your HTML formatted e mail notification does not include this standard attachment However if custom attachments have been defined for this individual notification in its workflow process those attachments will still be included 2 When you are done reviewing all the information for the notification click on one of the response links shown at the end of the notification Note If your workflow administrator has configured the notification mailer that sent this mess
45. ate or range of dates from which the notification s were sent Use the default date format of your database e Due enter the date or range of dates by which the notification s should be completed Use the default date format of your database e Priority choose High Normal or Low as the priority of the notification s you wish to find or choose All to display notifications of any priority e Notifications Delegated to check this criterion to search for notifications that you have forwarded to a specified role but yet still own Click on the adjacent field s up arrow icon to display a list of roles from which to choose See Using a List of Values page 3 21 3 16 Oracle Workflow User s Guide Find Notifications Page for Users Find Notifications CDOUGLAS Netscape e 2 As a user with workflow administrator privileges you can also search for notifications that you do not own See Setting Global User Preferences Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 17 Find Notifications Page for Administrators Find Notifications CDOUGLAS Netscape 8 Find Notifications E gt ORACLE Notification ID OR Owner Hg From o JE Status If Sul JJ 1 Priority In addition to being able to specify any of the standard search criteria listed above except for Notifications Delegated to you also have the f
46. ation directly but you cannot access any other Oracle Workflow features unless you are logged in See Responses through the Notification Detail Link Attachment Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide Related Topics Viewing Notifications from a Web Browser for Standalone Oracle Workflow page 3 14 Viewing Notifications from a Web Browser for Oracle Applications page 3 26 Workflow Summary Mail Message Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide Workflow Summary Mail HTML Message Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide Viewing Notifications from a Web Browser for Standalone Oracle Workflow You can use any Web browser that supports JavaScript and Frames to view and respond to your notifications in the Notifications Web page 3 14 Oracle Workflow User s Guide Note For information about the Worklist pages in Oracle Applications see Viewing Notifications from a Web Browser for Oracle Applications page 3 26 To Access Notifications from a Web Browser 1 You can access your worklist in one of several ways To navigate directly to your current worklist of open notifications enter lt webagent gt wfa html worklist orderkey lt orderkey gt amp status lt status gt amp user lt user gt The portion of the Worklist URL in square brackets represents optional arguments that you can pass by omitting the square brackets Replace the bracketed italicized text in these URLs as follows e lt webagent gt represents the base UR
47. attribute 5 Once you submit your response the Detail Notification page returns you to the Worklist where the notification you just responded to now displays a status of Closed Note If you revisit a Closed notification the Response section indicates that the Response has been submitted and displays the values that were submitted as the response 3 20 Oracle Workflow User s Guide 6 A Find icon in the toolbar of the Detail Notification page lets you navigate back to the Find Notifications screen at any time to search for and display other notifications To Reassign a Notification to Another User 1 You can reassign a notification in one of two ways e Inthe Worklist page you check Select for one or more notifications and choose Reassign e Inthe Worklist page click on the subject link of the notification you wish to reassign In the Detail Notification page that appears choose Reassign in the Response frame of the notification Important Your workflow may include a special HIDE_REASSIGN attribute to restrict reassignment of notifications If so the Reassign button may not be displayed in the Response frame and you should not reassign the notification See HIDE_REASSIGN Attribute Oracle Workflow Developer s Guide 2 Inthe Reassign page that appears a summary of the selected notification s appear towards the bottom of the screen Note If you clicked on the Reassign button in the Response frame of a specifi
48. atus of the workflow and its activities The Current Status region displays the process title diagram and detail tabs for the workflow Monitoring Workflow Processes 4 3 Process Title The process title appears in the upper left of the Current Status region and displays the workflow process name type and identifier If you drill down into a subprocess in the process diagram the process title displays the subprocess name Process Diagram Window The process diagram window is a scrolling canvas that displays the diagram of the workflow process or subprocess currently listed in the process title This diagram is identical to the diagram created in Oracle Workflow Builder Note however that you cannot use the Workflow Monitor to edit this diagram The process diagram window provides graphical cues about the status of the process and its activities e An activity icon may be highlighted with a colored box to indicate that it is in an interesting state The following table shows what state each color indicates Activity States in the Process Diagram Color of Box State Possible Status Code Red Error ERROR Green Active In Progress ACTIVE NOTIFIED DEFERRED Yellow Suspended SUSPEND lt none gt Normal COMPLETE WAITING NULL e Any transition arrow that has been traversed appears as a thick green line while an untraversed transition appears as a thin black line e Click an activity icon in the diagram to select
49. button appears if you only have access to delegate the notification e The Transfer button appears if you only have access to transfer ownership of the notification Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 31 See To Reassign a Notification to Another User page 3 32 and Setting the WE Notification Reassign Mode Profile Option Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide Important Your workflow may include special logic to restrict reassignment of notifications If so the Reassign button Delegate button or Transfer button may not be displayed in the Response section and you should not reassign the notification See HIDE_REASSIGN Attribute Oracle Workflow Developer s Guide e To request more information about this notification from another user or role choose the Request Information button in the Response section See To Request More Information From Another User page 3 34 Important Your workflow may include special logic to restrict requesting more information on notifications If so the Request Information button is not displayed in the Response section See HIDE_MOREINFO Attribute Oracle Workflow Developer s Guide e If another user sent you this notification with a request for more information the Response section displays the user who made the request and the request details Enter the information you want to provide in the Response field and choose the Submit button to submit your response 7 If this notif
50. c notification you do not see a summary of selected notifications 3 In the Reassign to field click on the up arrow icon to display a window that lets you search for a list of roles to choose from See Using a List of Values page 3 21 4 After choosing a role specify how you wish to reassign the notification Select Delegate Authority for Responding to Notifications if you want to give someone else authority to respond to the notification on your behalf With this option Oracle Workflow maintains that you own the notification Or select Transfer Ownership of Notifications if you want to give someone else complete ownership and responsibility of the notification 5 Enter any comments you want to pass along to the new role Choose Reassign Once the notification is reassigned the web browser returns you to your Worklist page where the reassigned notification is no longer in your worklist Important Your workflow may include special logic called a post notification function to verify that the role that you attempt to delegate or transfer a notification to is legitimate or to restrict reassignment of notifications altogether If so you may get a warning message to that effect when you attempt to reassign a notification See Post Notification Functions Oracle Workflow API Reference 6 A Find icon in the toolbar of the Reassign page lets you navigate back to the Find Notifications screen at any time to search for and d
51. cation to Another User page 3 32 You can navigate to the full details of any notification and act on the notification by clicking on the notification s Subject link or by selecting the notification and then choosing Open See To View the Details of a Notification page 3 30 To define vacation rules select the Vacation Rules link See To View and Maintain Vacation Rules page 3 36 To save your current search criteria as a personalized view for the worklist select the Save Search button See To Create or Update a Personal Worklist View page 3 44 You can also select the Simple Search button to perform a search with less complex criteria or select the Worklist Views button to navigate back to the Worklist See To Perform a Simple Search for Notifications page 3 40 To View and Maintain Personal Worklist Views 1 Navigate to the Personalize Views page The Personalize Views page displays all existing views for the role you are logged in as including both preconfigured views provided by Oracle Workflow and your personalized views For each view the list displays the view name description whether the view appears as a choice in the View menu in the Personal Worklist and whether the view is set as your default view In the Display View column for a personalized view select Yes to include the view in the View menu in the Personal Worklist or select No to exclude the view from the View menu Then choose the Apply button t
52. ct the type of user or role to which you want to reassign the notification Then select the user or role you want within that type Note The assignee types correspond to the originating system partitions in the Oracle Workflow directory service See Setting Up a Directory Service for Oracle Workflow Embedded in Oracle Applications Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide Important Your workflow may include special logic to restrict the users to whom you can reassign the notification If so only users who are valid for reassignment appear in the list of values See WF_REASSIGN_LOV Attribute Oracle Workflow Developer s Guide If you have access either to delegate or transfer notifications select the option you want to specify how you want to reassign the notification e Delegate your response Select this option if you want to give the new user authority to respond to the notification on your behalf but you want to retain ownership of the notification yourself For example a manager might delegate all vacation scheduling approvals to an assistant e Transfer notification ownership Select this option if you want to give the new user complete ownership of and responsibility for the notification For example use this option if you should not have received the notification and you want to send it to the correct recipient or to another recipient for resolution A transfer may have the effect of changing the approval hierarchy for the
53. d Response 1 Your plain text e mail notification includes information that is helpful for you to respond to the notification Depending on the notification the information may appear as references to other sources or as attachments Some attachments depending on their content may only be viewable if you display your notification using the Notification web pages See Viewing Notifications from a Web Browser page 3 14 2 To respond to your notification use the Reply command in your mail application to reply to the original e mail notification 3 Include the response template from the original notification in your reply In addition to the response prompts the response template includes the special notification ID and access key that a notification mailer requires to identify the notification you are 3 4 Oracle Workflow User s Guide responding to If your mail application includes an editable copy of the original message when it generates the reply message you can use that copy to enter your response values Otherwise copy and paste from the original message to obtain a copy of the response template that you can edit 4 Follow the response template instructions and insert your response values between the quotes following each response prompt The Notification System interprets your response values literally so a value in uppercase is interpreted differently from the same value in lowercase Note When you are using the two d
54. d and direct response e mail notifications are based on standard message templates defined in Oracle Workflow Builder Both describe the syntax the reply should follow and list the information needed to confirm the notification See Modifying Your Message Templates Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide When you respond to a notification by e mail your reply message must include the notification ID NID and access key from the original notification message Notification mailers can process your response properly only if you include the correct NID and access key combination in your response You can ensure that your reply contains the NID and access key either by including the entire original message in your reply or by using a response template that includes the NID line Note The notification access key is a distinct random key generated by the Notification System for each NID The access key serves as a password that allows only users who actually received the notification containing the key to respond to that notification The format of the NID line is as follows NID 9999 999999 XXXXXX Some mail clients notably early releases of Microsoft Outlook Express may not copy the NID line properly in a reply message When responding to a notification you should verify that the NID line is included in full and contains the prefix NID and all the details between the square brackets To Respond to a Plain Text E mail Notification Using Template
55. d to the notification on your behalf Note that you still maintain ownership of the notification If you want to transfer the notification and ownership of the notification to another user you can only do so from the Notifications web pages See Viewing Notifications from a Web Browser page 3 14 Setting Up Notification Mailers Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide Plain Text E mail Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide HTML Formatted E mail Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 13 Plain Text E mail with an HIML Attachment Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide Reviewing a Summary of Your Notifications via Electronic Mail You can have a summary of your workflow notifications delivered to you as a single e mail message if your notification preference is set to Plain text summary mail in the User Preferences web page or for Oracle Applications only if your notification preference is set to HTML summary mail You can receive a plain text e mail notification summary using any e mail reader To receive an HIML e mail notification summary you must be using Oracle Workflow embedded in Oracle Applications and your e mail reader must be able to interpret and display HTML formatting in the body of a message Your workflow administrator determines how frequently summary notifications are sent when setting up a notification mailer See Setting Up Notification Mailers Oracle Workflow Adm
56. ded Oracle Workflow responsibilities for Oracle Applications Your system administrator may have customized the responsibilities menus and navigation paths in your installation Oracle Workflow User Navigation Paths Web Page Standard Navigation Path Self Service Home page 2 6 Workflow User Web Applications Home or Workflow User Web New Home Advanced Worklist page 3 28 Workflow User Web Applications Advanced Worklist or Workflow User Web Applications Notifications or Workflow User Web New Notifications or Workflow Administrator Web Applications Notifications or Workflow Administrator Event Manager Notifications or Workflow Administrator Web New Notifications Self Service Status Monitor page 4 1 Workflow User Web Applications Status Monitor or Workflow User Web New Status Monitor Note The Workflow Administrator Web New and Workflow User Web New responsibilities are provided for reference to highlight the Oracle Applications Framework based functionality that has been added in Oracle Workflow The same functionality is also available on the previously existing responsibilities Workflow Administrator Web Applications Workflow Administrator Event Manager and Workflow User Web Applications Oracle Workflow User Navigation Paths A 1 B Oracle Workflow User Personalizations This appendix lists features that you can add to Oracle Workflow user Web pages through Oracle Applications Framework Person
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58. e the Duplicate View page and the Update View page are identical except that the fields in the Duplicate View and Update View pages are populated with previously defined information for the selected view Additionally if you navigate to the Create View page by saving a simple or advanced search some fields in the Create View page are populated with your search criteria 2 Inthe General Properties region enter a display name to identify your personalized view In the Duplicate View page the view name defaults to Duplicate of original view name You can optionally enter a different name 3 Select the number of notification rows you want to display in the view 4 If you want to make this view your default view check the Set as Default check box Only one view can be set as the default at any time so if you check Set as Default for the current view this option is automatically deselected for any view you previously set as the default Note Although you cannot update any settings for the preconfigured views provided by Oracle Workflow if you want to use a preconfigured view as your default view you can create a duplicate of the preconfigured view and check Set as Default for the duplicate view The preconfigured Open Notifications view is used as the default view if no other default is set 5 Enter an optional description for the view 6 Inthe Column Properties region specify the notification property columns you want to dis
59. e Find Automatic Notification Processing Rules web page appears letting you first display the routing rules for the role you specify See To Define a Rule for Automatic Notification Routing page 3 22 7 Choose the Find Processes link to query for a list of workflow process instances that match certain search criteria Once you find a specific process instance you can view its status details in the Workflow Monitor See Using the Find Processes Web Page Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide 2 2 Oracle Workflow User s Guide 8 Choose the User Preferences link to set the preferences that control how you interact with Oracle Workflow See Setting User Preferences page 2 3 Setting User Preferences You can control how you interact with standalone Oracle Workflow by specifying user preferences in the User Preferences Web page The values that you specify in the User Preferences Web page override the default global values set by your workflow administrator in the Global Preferences Web page Note For information about setting user preferences in Oracle Applications see Preferences Oracle Applications User s Guide To Set User Preferences 1 Use a web browser to connect to the Oracle Workflow home page lt webagent gt wfa html home From the Oracle Workflow home page choose the User Preferences link Alternatively you can connect directly to the User Preferences web page lt webagent gt wf pref edit lt webagent gt r
60. e full list is displayed the Notifications region also displays the View pull down menu the Open button and the Reassign Delegate or Transfer button e To specify which notifications to display in the Worklist select the type of notifications you want from the View pull down menu and select Go You can choose to view Open Notifications FYI Notifications To Do Notifications All Notifications or Notifications From Me If you choose All Notifications the list additionally displays the status for each notification If you choose Notifications From Me the list displays the recipient of each notification instead of the from role e To view and respond to a notification or a group of notifications select the notification or notifications you want and select the Open button If you select more than one notification to open only one notification is displayed at a time You can navigate among the open notifications by selecting the Next or Back buttons in the Notification Details page See To View the Details of a Notification page 3 30 e To collectively reassign a group of notifications select the notifications you want and select the Reassign button the Delegate button or the Transfer button The Reassign button appears if you have access to reassign notifications to another user either by delegating the notifications or by transferring complete ownership of the notifications The Delegate button appears if you only have access to delega
61. e mail notification includes information that is helpful for you to respond to the notification Depending on the notification the information may appear as links to other sources or as attachments 3 8 Oracle Workflow User s Guide HTML E mail Notification Requisition A0102 1 Color Photocopier for 2 400 00 requires your approval Netscape Message ioj x Approval requested for Requisition Number 40102 Description 1 Color Photocopier Amount 2 400 00 Forward From BLEWIS Requestor BLEWIS Note Please click on one of the following choices to automatically generate an E mail response Before sending the E mail response to close this notification ensure all response prompts include a desired response value within quotes Please approve or reject this requisition Approve Reject Important If your notification preference is HTML Mail with attachments an HTML formatted e mail notification always includes one standard attachment The attachment is called Notification Detail Link and it provides a direct link to your notification in the Notification Details web page Note that your Web browser must support JavaScript and Frames to open this attachment When you open the Notification Detail Link attachment it automatically attempts to establish a web session with your web server In doing so it authenticates your access verifies that your notification is still open and displays a message if the notification is
62. e of the Oracle Database by the Java Function Activity Agent Function A PL SQL stored procedure that can define business rules perform automated tasks within an application or retrieve application information The stored procedure accepts standard arguments and returns a completion result Function Activity An automated unit of work that is defined by a PL SQL stored procedure Generic Service Component Framework A facility that helps to simplify and automate the management of background Java services Item A specific process document or transaction that is managed by a workflow process Item Attribute See Item Type Attribute Item Type A grouping of all items of a particular category that share the same set of item attributes Item type is also used as a high level grouping for processes Item Type Attribute A feature associated with a particular item type also known as an item attribute An item type attribute is defined as a variable whose value can be looked up and set by the application that maintains the item An item type attribute and its value are available to all activities in a process Lookup Code An internal name of a value defined in a lookup type Lookup Type A predefined list of values Each value in a lookup type has an internal and a display name Message The information that is sent by a notification activity A message must be defined before it can be associated with a notification activity A
63. either evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites 1 Overview of Oracle Workflow This chapter introduces you to the concept of a workflow process and to the major features of Oracle Workflow 2 Oracle Workflow Home Page This chapter discusses the Oracle Workflow home page where users can centrally access all the web based features of Oracle Workflow 3 Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses This chapter discusses the different ways people involved in a workflow process can view and respond to workflow notifications This chapter also describes how you can define rules to have Oracle Workflow automatically handle your notifications 4 Monitoring Workflow Processes This chapter describes how to monitor the progress of a workflow process A Oracle Workflow User Navigation Paths This appendix lists the navigation paths to Oracle Workflow user Web pages in the seeded Oracle Workflow responsibilities for Oracle Applications B Oracle Workflow User Personalizations This appendix lists features that you can add to Oracle Workflow user Web pages through Oracle Applications Framework Personalization Glossary Related Documents You can choose from many sources of information including online documentation training and support services to increase your knowledge and understanding of Oracle Workflow If this guide refers you to other Oracle Applications documentation use only the Re
64. epresents the base URL of the web agent configured for Oracle Workflow in your Web server See Setting Global User Preferences Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide Important These are secured pages so if you have not yet logged on as a valid user in the current web session you will be prompted to do so before the page appears Oracle Workflow Home Page 2 3 User Preferences Page Summary z User Preferences rosoft Internet Explorer provided by Dey Services 2 The User Preferences web page displays a summary of your current user preferences Choose Update to modify these preferences 2 4 Oracle Workflow User s Guide User Preferences Page Update User Preferences Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by Dev Services File Edit View Favorites Tools Help A User Preferences D 2 ORACLE Language AMERICAN AMERICAN AMERICA Territory AMERICA AMERICA AMERICAN 7 Date Format fo Document Home Node gt Send me electronic mail notifications HTML mail with attachments OK Cancel In the Language and Territory fields use the list of values to select the NLS LANGUAGE and NLS TERRITORY combination that defines the default language dependent behavior and territory dependent formatting of your notification sessions In the Date Format field specify an Oracle Database compliant date format to use for your database session An example of an Oracle Database compliant date forma
65. erence URL link that opens another Web browser window and connects to a specified URL e A PL SQL PL SQL CLOB or PL SQL BLOB document link that displays the contents of a document generated from a PL SQL function Such documents can contain text HTML images or application files such as PDF or RTF documents 4 The Response section may look as follows e Ifa notification requires a response but none of the responses affect the result of the notification activity the response prompts all appear as fields and or poplists When you are done entering your response values submit your response by choosing the Submit button e Ifa notification requires a response and one of the responses becomes the result of the notification activity then that determining response will appear last as a set of buttons to choose from as shown in the figure above The buttons represent the possible choices to the response prompt All other response prompts if any appear as fields or poplists above that prompt When you choose a button for that last response prompt you also submit your response for the notification e If a notification does not require a response the response section indicates that Choose Close in the Response section to close the notification so that it does not appear in your notification summary list the next time you query for open notifications Note You can click on any response prompt to display more information about the response
66. es a notification activity in a workflow process The notification activity may designate the role as being responsible for performing some human action or may simply relay process related information to the role To successfully deliver a notification to a role the role must be defined in the Oracle Workflow directory service As a member of a role you can view a notification using any one of three interfaces depending on your role s notification preference setting in the Oracle Workflow directory service You can receive an e mail for each individual notification receive a single e mail summarizing all your notifications or query the Workflow Notifications Web page for your notifications If you choose to receive e mail you can also choose the format in which you want to receive the e mail messages See Setting Up an Oracle Workflow Directory Service Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide Setting User Preferences page 2 3 and Preferences Oracle Applications User s Guide Each notification message can include context sensitive information about the process and directions on how to respond to the notification if a response is required The Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 1 message can also include pointers to Web URLs and references to Oracle Applications forms that allow the user to get additional information related to the notification Oracle Workflow sends your notifications in the language specified in your use
67. esponse template may also prompt you for other information in addition to your selected response Supply responses by editing the response value text between the quotes following each response prompt Note Response templates generated from a response link in an HTML formatted e mail notification provide single quotes to enclose your response values rather than the double quotes provided in plain text response templates This use of single quotes accommodates e mail applications that cannot process double quotes in the lt A HREF mailto gt tag for the link but can accept single quotes 3 10 Oracle Workflow User s Guide Depending on how your mail application displays these characters the two single quote characters following a response prompt may visually resemble one double quote character Ensure that you insert your response between the the two quotes rather than after them When you are using the two single quotes to delimit your response you can validly use a double quote character within your response value For example a response to a Comment prompt could be entered as follows Comment The Equipment proposal is approved However you cannot validly use another single quote character within your response value in the default format If you want to use the single quote character as an apostrophe within your response value you can optionally enter your response in one of the following alte
68. ess that sent the notification belongs e Subject a description of the notification e Sent date when the notification was delivered e Due date by which the notification should be completed e Status open closed or canceled status of the notification This column is displayed when you view all notifications Select the From To Type Subject Sent Due or Status column heading to sort the list by that column By default the list is sorted by sent date from most recent to oldest and then by subject in alphabetical order To collectively reassign a group of notifications select the notifications you want and select the Reassign button See To Reassign a Notification to Another User page 3 32 Note Your workflow may include special logic to restrict reassignment of notifications If any of the notifications that you selected are restricted in this way Oracle Workflow displays an error message when you select the Reassign button In this case you should deselect the restricted notifications before performing the Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 39 reassignment See HIDE_REASSIGN Attribute Oracle Workflow Developer s Guide 6 You can navigate to the full details of any notification and act on the notification by clicking on the notification s Subject link or by selecting the notification and then choosing Open See To View the Details of a Notification page 3 30 7 To define vacation rules select the V
69. esults for Survey Survey name Next Cancel S Veet Choose Next to proceed or choose Cancel if you want to cancel this rule and return to the previous page The final Create New Rule page appears The fields in this page vary depending on the item type s and notification s that you are creating this rule for For example if your rule pertains to all item types you can automatically reassign all the notifications to another user but you cannot define an automatic response to all the notifications since different notifications have different response attributes Enter values in the Start Date and End Date fields to specify the period that this rule should be active Specify the date using the default date format of your database and specify a time using the format HH24 MI SS if your default date format does not have a time component If you leave Start Date blank the rule is effective immediately If you leave End Date blank the rule is effective indefinitely Warning Since you can define different rules for the same notification s to be effective at different times the Automatic Notification Processing web page does not prevent you from defining multiple rules for the same notification s You should be careful to ensure that rules for the same notification s do not overlap in their effective dates If multiple rules are effective for the same notification Oracle Workflow picks one rule at random to apply
70. her action Each time the Notification System sends or reassigns a notification to a role Oracle Workflow tests the notification against that role s list of rules for the most specific match based on the criteria in the order listed below ROLE lt role gt and 1 MESSAGE TYPE lt type gt and MESSAGE NAME lt name gt 2 MESSAGE TYPE lt type gt and MESSAGE NAME is null 3 MESSAGE TYPE is null and MESSAGE NAME is null As soon as it finds a match Oracle Workflow applies the rule and discontinues any further rule matching If a rule reassigns a notification Oracle Workflow performs rule matching again against the new recipient role s list of rules Oracle Workflow maintains a count of the number of times it forwards a notification to detect perpetual forwarding cycles If a notification is automatically forwarded more than ten times Oracle Workflow assumes a forwarding cycle has occurred and ceases executing any further forwarding rules marking the notification as being in error Note For information about the vacation rule pages for Oracle Workflow embedded in Oracle Applications see To View and Maintain Vacation Rules page 3 36 To Define a Rule for Automatic Notification Processing 1 Use a web browser to connect to one of two URLs To display the list of routing rules for your current role enter lt webagent gt wf route list user lt rolename gt This URL can include an optional argument as denoted by the
71. ication requires a password based electronic signature a confirmation page appears after you submit your response This page displays notification header information and the response values that you entered to let you review the response you are signing To affix your electronic signature to your response enter your Oracle Applications user name and password and select the Submit button This electronic signature is analogous to your written signature See WF_SIG_POLICY Attribute Oracle Workflow Developer s Guide Note If your site has implemented single sign on through Oracle Internet Directory and your single sign on password is different than your Oracle Application Object Library password you must use your Oracle Application Object Library password to sign notifications See Electronic Signatures page 3 2 8 If this notification requires a certificate based digital signature a confirmation page appears after you submit your response This page displays notification header information and the response values that you entered to let you review the response you are signing Choose the Sign button and use your Web browser to enter your X 509 certificate as your signature For detailed instructions please refer to the online help for your Web browser If you have multiple certificates installed ensure that you enter a certificate that is assigned to the Oracle Applications user name with which you logged in See Electronic Signatures page
72. ice Monitor page 4 1 Viewing Notification History The Notification History page shows information about the notifications sent by a workflow e To send e mail to the recipient of a notification select the user link in the Notification Recipient column e If you have workflow administrator privileges you can reassign a notification that is not yet complete Select the notification you want to reassign and select the Reassign button See To Reassign a Notification to Another User page 3 32 Note You cannot reassign a notification from the Status Monitor if the Expand Roles option is selected for the notification Additionally you cannot reassign a voting notification that tallies the recipients responses See Voting Activity Oracle Workflow Developer s Guide e To view the status diagram for the workflow select the View Diagram button e If you have workflow administrator privileges you can cancel a workflow that is not yet complete Select the Cancel Workflow button In the Cancel page select Apply The Workflow Engine sets the status of the workflow to FORCE and all processing for the workflow is canceled and cannot be restarted You can also select the Cancel button to return to the previous page without canceling the workflow Related Topics Accessing the Self Service Monitor page 4 1 Viewing a Status Diagram The Status Diagram page shows the process diagram for a workflow including graphical cues about the st
73. imeout Timeout value in minutes or item attribute internal name Status Tab Current Location Process display name activity display name Status Activity status Result Activity result Begin Date Date activity begins End Date Date activity ends Due Date Date activity is due to time out Assigned User Role name or item attribute internal name Error Message Error message shown only if activity status is Error Notification Tab Related Topics Current Location Process display name activity display name Recipient Recipient of notification Status Notification status Begin Date Date notification is delivered End Date Date notification is closed Due Date Date activity is due to time out Note If the selected activity is a notification activity where Expand Roles is selected but no response is required then the recipient shown is simply the role rather than the individual users in the role Accessing the Self Service Monitor page 4 1 Monitoring Workflow Processes 4 5 Viewing Participant Responses The Participant Responses page shows information about closed response required notifications for a workflow For example you can use this page to view individual responses to a voting activity e To send e mail to the respondent for a notification select the user link in the Respondent column e To view details about a response select the details icon in the View Response Details column
74. in the Status Monitor select the Full List button See Viewing Workflows in the Status Monitor page 4 2 5 To view notifications in the Notifications Worklist choose the Notifications tab or select the Notifications link at the bottom of the page See To View Notifications from the Advanced Worklist page 3 28 6 To view the Workflow Monitor choose the Status Monitor tab or select the Status Monitor link at the bottom of the page See Accessing the Self Service Monitor page 4 1 2 8 Oracle Workflow User s Guide 3 Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses This chapter discusses the different ways people involved in a workflow process can view and respond to workflow notifications This chapter also describes how you can define rules to have Oracle Workflow automatically handle your notifications This chapter covers the following topics e Overview of Notification Handling e Reviewing Notifications via Electronic Mail e Reviewing a Summary of Your Notifications via Electronic Mail e Viewing Notifications from a Web Browser for Standalone Oracle Workflow e Defining Rules for Automatic Notification Processing for Standalone Oracle Workflow e Viewing Notifications from a Web Browser for Oracle Applications e Vacation Rules for Oracle Applications e Viewing Notifications from the Personal Worklist Overview of Notification Handling Oracle Workflow sends a notification to a role when the Workflow Engine execut
75. inistrator s Guide In standalone Oracle Workflow the plain text e mail notification summary is based on the Workflow Summary Mail template defined in the System Mailer item type The standard summary identifies the recipient notification ID subject priority and due date of each notification It also indicates that if you wish to view the details of a notification or respond to or close the notification you should use the Worklist Web page In Oracle Applications the plain text and HTML formatted versions of the e mail notification summary are based on the Workflow Summary Mail HTML template defined in the System Mailer item type The standard summary identifies the priority from role workflow type subject sent date and due date of each notification To view the details of a notification or respond to or close the notification you should use the Worklist Web pages In the HTML formatted version of the summary you can select a subject link to navigate directly to the Notification Details page for that notification The HTML formatted summary also includes a link to the Worklist page from which you can access all your notifications Note Depending on the configuration of your Oracle Workflow installation if you are not already logged in you may be prompted to log in before you can access the Worklist or Notification Details pages Otherwise if your configuration allows you can access the Notification Details page for a notific
76. ipant option and select the user or role you want from the pull down menu e To specify any user listed in the directory service select the Any User option and select a type of user or role Then select the user or role you want within that type Note The user and role types correspond to the originating system partitions in the Oracle Workflow directory service See Setting Up a Directory Service for Oracle Workflow Embedded in Oracle Applications Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide 3 Enter details about what information you are requesting in the Information Requested field 4 Select the Submit button to send your request to the specified user You can also select the Cancel button to return to the previous page without sending your request 5 After you request more information for a notification that notification does not appear in your Worklist as an open notification until the user you specified responds to your request However you can still review the notification while your request is pending by choosing to view Notifications From Me in your Worklist and then opening the Notification Details page for the notification you want e If you do not want to wait any longer for the additional information you requested you can respond to the notification using the Response section of the Notification Details page In this case your pending request for more information is canceled 3 34 Oracle Workflow User s Guide e Ifyou
77. isplay other notifications Using a List of Values 1 Fora field that supports a list of values click on the field s up arrow icon to display a list of values window Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 21 2 Inthe Find field enter search criteria and choose the Find button to retrieve a subset of values that match your criteria You can also choose the Clear button to clear the Find field If you do not specify any search criteria and simply choose Find you retrieve the complete list of values 3 Click on a value from the list to select that value and close the list of values window The value you select populates the original field Defining Rules for Automatic Notification Processing for Standalone Oracle Workflow Use Oracle Workflow Automatic Notification Processing to automatically forward your notifications to another role or respond to incoming notifications with a predefined response when you are not available to manage your notifications directly such as when you are on vacation The Automatic Notification Processing web page lets you define the rules for automatic notification processing Each rule is specific to a role and can apply to any or all messages of a specific item type and or message name A rule can result in one of three actions reassigning the notification to another user responding to or closing the notification or simply delivering the notification to the original recipient with no furt
78. ist to display that user s notifications instead of your own When viewing another user s worklist you can perform the following actions e View the details of the user s notifications e Respond to notifications that require a response e Close notifications that do not require a response e Reassign notifications to a different user Note Your own assigned notification reassign mode still applies when you are viewing another user s worklist For example if your notification reassign mode is Delegate then you can only delegate notifications even if you are viewing the worklist of a user who has Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 27 access to transfer notifications See Setting the WF Notification Reassign Mode Profile Option Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide e Request more information about a notification from a different user e Respond to a request for more information However if the user whose worklist you are accessing has a notification sent from you you can only view that notification and cannot take any action on it For example you cannot respond to a notification that you reassigned to the other user nor to a notification marked as being sent from you by special logic in the workflow such as an expense report that you submitted to the other user for approval You cannot define vacation rules for the user whose worklist you are viewing You also cannot grant access to that user s worklist to a
79. it and update the detail tab window to display information about the activity e Click any empty space in the diagram to deselect the currently selected activity icon and to refresh the detail tab window to display information about the current process as a whole e Double click an activity icon that represents a subprocess to drill down to the diagram for the subprocess This action automatically updates the process title to reflect the name of the subprocess and updates the detail tab window to display information about the subprocess as a whole Alternatively you can select the subprocess activity and choose Zoom In to drill down to the diagram for the subprocess Choose Zoom Out to navigate back to the higher level process Detail Tab Window The detail tab window which appears below the process diagram is a vertically scrollable display area that provides information about a selected process or activity The information appears as follows for each tab 4 4 Oracle Workflow User s Guide Definition Tab Current Location Process display name activity display name Item Type Workflow type display name Activity Name Activity display name Description Activity description Activity Type Process Notice Event or Function Result Type Result type display name Usage Tab Current Location Process display name activity display name Start End No Start or End Performer Role name or item attribute internal name T
80. ject Requisition Notify Requestor of End Reject E88 Functions True Rejection Approve Requisition 4 Record Requisition F Notify Requestor of a Reject Requisition False Forward 3 Select Approver Verify Authority Events Messages E Lookup Types E Standard Notify Requestor No End Reject Directory Service Approver Available SS We refer to the whole drawing as a process or process diagram The icons represent activities and the arrows represent the transitions between the activities In the above example new items are created for the process when a user creates and submits a requisition in the appropriate application This process contains several workflow activities implemented as PL SQL stored procedures including e Select Approver to select according to your business rules who should approve the requisition e Verify Authority to verify that a selected approver has the spending authority to approve the requisition Overview of Oracle Workflow 1 5 2 Oracle Workflow Home Page This chapter discusses the Oracle Workflow home page where users can centrally access all the web based features of Oracle Workflow This chapter covers the following topics Accessing the Oracle Workflow Home Page Setting User Preferences Accessing the Oracle Workflow Self Service Home Page Accessing the Oracle Workflow Home Page Use the standalone Oracle Workflow home page to link to all of Oracle Workf
81. lease 11i versions of those guides Online Documentation viii If you are using the version of Oracle Workflow embedded in Oracle Applications note that all Oracle Applications documentation is available online HTML or PDF e PDF Documentation See the Oracle Applications Documentation Library CD for current PDF documentation for your product with each release The Oracle Applications Documentation Library is also available on OracleMetaLink and is updated frequently e Online Help Online help patches HTML are available on OracleMetaLink e About Documents Refer to the About document for the mini pack or family pack that you have installed to learn about feature updates installation information and new documentation or documentation patches that you can download About documents are available on OracleMetaLink If you are using the standalone version of Oracle Workflow note that this guide is available online in HTML format The HTML documentation is available from a URL provided by your system administrator or from the help icon in the Oracle Workflow Web pages Related Guides You may want to refer to other Oracle Workflow guides and Oracle Applications implementation documentation when you set up and use Oracle Workflow Additionally Oracle Workflow is used by other Oracle Applications products to provide embedded workflows and business events Therefore if you are using the version of Oracle Workflow embedded in Or
82. lf With this option Oracle Workflow maintains that you still own the notifications but the recipient role of the notifications is now the role that you are reassigning your notifications to Select Transfer Ownership of Notifications if you want to give the new role complete ownership and responsibility of the notification Important Your workflow administrator may implement special logic to verify that the role that you attempt to delegate or transfer the notifications to is legitimate or to restrict reassignment of notifications altogether If so you may get a warning message to that effect when you attempt to create a reassigning rule 14 If your rule action is Respond set the values that you want to automatically respond with 15 Choose OK to save this rule and return to the Notification Rules page to display an updated list of your role s routing rules You can also choose Cancel at any time if you want to cancel this rule and return to the previous page To Update or Delete an Automatic Notification Processing Rule 1 Connect to the URL for the Automatic Notification Processing web page lt webagent gt wf route list lt webagent gt represents the base URL of the web agent configured for Oracle Workflow in your Web server See Setting Global User Preferences Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide 2 The Automatic Notification Processing page for the role appears In the Result of Applying Rule column click o
83. lizations page B 1 Note For information about the home page in standalone Oracle Workflow see Accessing the Oracle Workflow Home Page page 2 1 To Access the Oracle Workflow Self Service Home Page 1 Use a web browser to navigate to the self service home page using a responsibility and navigation path specified by your system administrator See Oracle Workflow User Navigation Paths page A 1 To set your Oracle E Business Suite general preferences including language and notification preferences select the Preferences button See Set Preferences Oracle Applications User s Guide 2 6 Oracle Workflow User s Guide 3 The Notifications region of the home page lists your five highest priority notifications ordered by priority and then by date For each notification the list displays the from role workflow type subject sent date and due date Select the From Type Subject Sent or Due column heading to sort the list by that column e To view and respond to a notification select the notification subject link in the Subject column See To View the Details of a Notification page 3 30 e To define vacation rules select the Vacation Rules link See To View and Maintain Vacation Rules page 3 36 e To grant access to your worklist to another user select the Worklist Access link See To Grant Access to Your Worklist page 3 35 e To view the complete list of all your notifications select the Full List button When th
84. low s web based features This page centralizes your access to the features so you do not have to remember individual URLs Note If Oracle Internet Directory Single Sign On integration has been implemented for your installation of Oracle Workflow you can use single sign on when accessing Oracle Workflow s web based features With single sign on a user who is logged into any participating component is automatically authenticated when accessing any other participating component and does not need to log in again See Synchronizing Workflow Directory Services with Oracle Internet Directory Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide Note For information about the self service home page in Oracle Applications see Accessing the Oracle Workflow Self Service Home Page page 2 6 To Access the Oracle Workflow Home Page 1 Use a web browser to connect to the URL for the home page lt webagent gt wfa_html home lt webagent gt represents the base URL of the web agent configured for Oracle Workflow in your Web server See Setting Global User Preferences Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide Important This is a secured page so if you have not yet logged on as a valid user in the current web session you will be prompted to do so before the page appears Oracle Workflow Home Page 2 1 Standalone Oracle Workflow Home Page E Oracle Workflow Home Page Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by Dev Services P EG Ele Edt
85. ly search criteria to locate specific notifications to display in the view e Search results where each must contain all values entered Select this option to locate only notifications that match all your search criteria e Search results where each may contain any value entered Select this option to locate all notifications that match at least one of your search criteria Enter the search criteria you want to use to locate notifications to display in the view To display additional search options select the notification property you want from the Add Column pull down menu and select the Add button Note You can choose to display more than one search option of the same type if you want to apply several search criteria to the same notification property For example if you want to search for notifications that were sent between two particular dates you can display two Sent search options Set one option to search for all notifications sent after the first date and set the other option to search for all notifications sent before the second date If you choose Search results where each must contain all values entered then the search will display notifications that match both search criteria with sent dates falling in between the two dates that you specified For each search option select a filter operator and then enter a filter value to specify the notifications you want to display For the is filter operator you should enter a
86. ly to your own worklist even if you are viewing another user s notifications Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 29 To View the Details of a Notification 1 Navigate to the Notification Details page If you are viewing a notification from another user s worklist the Notification Details page displays the name of that user 2 The notification header shows general identifying information and may also include additional header attributes that display key information about the notification See Header Attributes Oracle Workflow Developer s Guide In Oracle Applications non structured data such as images spreadsheets or video can be linked to structured application data including Oracle Workflow notifications If a notification includes such Oracle Applications attachments the notification header displays an Attachment s heading with links to the attachments Select a link to view the attached data See Attachments Oracle Applications User s Guide and Attachments Table Oracle Self Service Web Applications online help A notification may also include a message body a related applications section and a response section 3 The message body displays the information of which you are being notified The message body may include inline images as well as embedded links to additional information sources pertinent to the notification A reference URL link connects to a specified URL either in the same web browser window or
87. message contains a subject a priority a body and possibly one or more message attributes Message Attribute A variable that you define for a particular message to either provide information or prompt for a response when the message is sent in a notification You can use a predefine item type attribute as a message attribute Defined as a Send source a message attribute Glossary 3 Glossary 4 gets replaced with a runtime value when the message is sent Defined as a Respond source a message attribute prompts a user for a response when the message is sent Node An instance of an activity in a process diagram as shown in the Process window Notification An instance of a message delivered to a user Notification Activity A unit of work that requires human intervention A notification activity sends a message to a user containing the information necessary to complete the work Notification Mailer A type of service component that sends e mail notifications to users through a mail application and processes e mail responses Notification Worklist A Web page that you can access to query and respond to workflow notifications Performer A user or role assigned to perform a human activity notification Notification activities that are included in a process must be assigned to a performer Process A set of activities that need to be performed to accomplish a business goal Process Definition A workflow process a
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89. n the rule you wish to update 3 In the Modify Rule page make your changes to the rule and choose OK to save your changes You can also choose Cancel to undo your changes and go back to the previous page 4 To delete a rule in the Delete Rule column choose X for the rule you wish to delete Viewing Notifications from a Web Browser for Oracle Applications The Worklist pages let you view and respond to your notifications using a Web browser The Advanced Worklist provides an overview of your notifications from which you can drill down to view an individual notification in the Notification Details page You can also reassign notifications to another user request more information 3 26 Oracle Workflow User s Guide about a notification from another user respond to requests for information and define vacation rules to handle notifications automatically in your absence Oracle Workflow also provides the Personal Worklist which includes additional options to specify what notifications to display in your Worklist and what information to display for those notifications Before you can use the Personal Worklist your system administrator must give you access to it Note For information about the Worklist pages in standalone Oracle Workflow see Viewing Notifications from a Web Browser for Standalone Oracle Workflow page 3 14 From Role Some Worklist pages include a From column that shows the role from which the notificati
90. ng Notifications from a Web Browser for Standalone Oracle Workflow Defining Rules for Automatic Notification Processing for Standalone Oracle Workflow Viewing Notifications from a Web Browser for Oracle Applications Vacation Rules for Oracle Applications Viewing Notifications from the Personal Worklist 4 Monitoring Workflow Processes Monitoring Workflow Processes with the Self Service Monitor Viewing Workflows in the Status Monitor Viewing Notification History Viewing a Status Diagram Viewing Participant Responses Viewing Error Information for a Workflow A Oracle Workflow User Navigation Paths Oracle Workflow User Navigation Paths 1 1 1 2 1 4 2 1 2 3 2 6 3 1 3 14 3 14 3 22 3 26 3 35 3 38 4 1 4 2 4 3 4 3 4 6 4 6 B Oracle Workflow User Personalizations Oracle Workflow User Personalizations Self Service Home Page 2 a 2 we Advanced Worklist Notification Details Page Personal Worklist Glossary Index B 1 B 1 B 1 B 2 B 2 Send Us Your Comments Oracle Workflow User s Guide Release 2 6 4 Part No B15854 02 Oracle welcomes your comments and suggestions on the quality and usefulness of this publication Your input is an important part of the information used for revision e Did you find any errors e Is the information clearly presented e Do you need more information If so where e Are the examples correct Do you need more examples
91. nge for our trainers to teach at your facility or you can use Oracle Learning Network OLN Oracle University s online education utility In addition Oracle training professionals can tailor standard courses or develop custom courses to meet your needs For example you may want to use your organization s structure terminology and data as examples in a customized training session delivered at your own facility Support From on site support to central support our team of experienced professionals provides the help and information you need to keep Oracle Workflow working for you This team includes your Technical Representative Account Manager and Oracle s large staff of consultants and support specialists with expertise in your business area managing an Oracle Database and your hardware and software environment Do Not Use Database Tools to Modify Oracle Applications Data Oracle STRONGLY RECOMMENDS that you never use SQL Plus Oracle Data Browser database triggers or any other tool to modify Oracle Applications data unless otherwise instructed Oracle provides powerful tools you can use to create store change retrieve and maintain information in an Oracle database But if you use Oracle tools such as SQL Plus to modify Oracle Applications data you risk destroying the integrity of your data and you lose the ability to audit changes to your data Because Oracle Applications tables are interrelated any change you make using
92. notification For example a manager might transfer a notification about a certain project to another manager who now owns that project Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 33 Note If you only have access to delegate notifications Oracle Workflow automatically uses the delegate option when you reassign notifications Similarly if you only have access to transfer notifications Oracle Workflow automatically uses the transfer option when you reassign notifications See Setting the WF Notification Reassign Mode Profile Option Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide 5 Enter any comments you want to send with the notification to the new user If you are reassigning more than one notification your comments will be included with each notification Important Your workflow may include special logic to verify that the role that you attempt to delegate or transfer a notification to is legitimate or to restrict reassignment of notifications altogether If so you may get a warning message to that effect when you attempt to reassign a notification See Post Notification Functions Oracle Workflow API Reference To Request More Information From Another User 1 Navigate to the Request More Information page 2 Use the Request More Information From option to specify the user or role from whom you want to request information e To specify another user or role previously involved in this workflow process select the Workflow Partic
93. nterpreted differently from the same value in lowercase If a response prompt provides a default response value you can accept the default value by leaving the appropriate response line blank 5 When you are satisfied with your response use the Send command of the mail application to send your reply Note If you send an invalid response the Notification System sends you an invalid response message If you respond to a notification that has been canceled you get a message informing you that the notification was canceled Similarly if you respond to a notification that was already previously responded to you get a message informing you that the notification is closed 6 If this notification requires a password based signature or certificate based digital signature in your response you cannot respond to the notification through e mail In this case the notification informs you that an electronic signature is required and 3 6 Oracle Workflow User s Guide directs you to access the online version of the notification instead Navigate to the Notification Details web page to submit your response See To View the Details of a Notification page 3 30 Note Electronic signatures are currently supported only for the version of Oracle Workflow embedded in Oracle Applications 7 If this notification includes sensitive content that cannot be sent in e mail for security reasons the notification e mail message directs you to access the
94. ntifier as well as the following details for the selected workflow e Failed Activity The name of the activity that encountered an error e Activity Type The activity type either Function Notification Event or Process e Error Name The internal name of the error e Error Message The error message describing the error 4 6 Oracle Workflow User s Guide You can optionally display the error stack which provides context information to help an administrator locate the source of the error To show the error stack if it is hidden select the Show Error Stack link To hide the error stack if it is shown select the Hide Error Stack link Note If you navigated to the Error Summary page from an error status link for a workflow the page shows details for each errored activity within the workflow If you navigated to the page from an error status link for a single errored notification activity the page shows details for only that activity Related Topics Accessing the Self Service Monitor page 4 1 Monitoring Workflow Processes 4 7 A Oracle Workflow User Navigation Paths This appendix lists the navigation paths to Oracle Workflow user Web pages in the seeded Oracle Workflow responsibilities for Oracle Applications This appendix covers the following topics e Oracle Workflow User Navigation Paths Oracle Workflow User Navigation Paths This table shows the navigation paths to Oracle Workflow user Web pages in the see
95. nvironment BIS 11i User Guide Online Help This guide is provided as online help only from the BIS application and includes information about intelligence reports Discoverer workbooks and the Performance Management Framework Using Oracle Time Management This guide provides information about capturing work patterns such as shift hours so that this information can be used by other applications such as Oracle General Ledger Installation and System Administration Oracle Applications Concepts This guide provides an introduction to the concepts features technology stack architecture and terminology for Oracle Applications Release 11i It provides a useful first book to read before installing Oracle Applications Installing Oracle Applications This guide provides instructions for managing the installation of Oracle Applications products In Release 11i much of the installation process is handled using Oracle Rapid Install which minimizes the time to install Oracle Applications and the Oracle technology stack by automating many of the required steps This guide contains instructions for using Oracle Rapid Install and lists the tasks you need to perform to finish your installation You should use this guide in conjunction with individual product user s guides and implementation guides Upgrading Oracle Applications Refer to this guide if you are upgrading your Oracle Applications Release 10 7 or Release 11 0 products to Release 11i
96. nyone else Note To respond to a notification that requires a digital signature you must be logged in as the intended recipient You cannot respond to a notification that requires a digital signature when you are accessing another user s worklist because in this case the user responding will not match the intended recipient so authorization will fail However with worklist access you can reassign the notification to yourself so that you can access the notification through your own worklist and respond directly To View Notifications from the Advanced Worklist 1 Use a web browser to navigate to the Advanced Worklist using a responsibility and navigation path specified by your system administrator See Oracle Workflow User Navigation Paths page A 1 2 To specify which notifications to display in the Worklist select the type of notifications you want from the View pull down menu and select Go You can choose to view Open Notifications FYI Notifications To Do Notifications All Notifications Notifications From Me 3 The Advanced Worklist shows the following information for each notification From the role from which the notification was sent This column is displayed when you view notifications sent to you To the role to which the notification was sent This column is displayed when you view notifications sent from you Type display name of the item type to which the workflow process that sent the notification belongs
97. o match For the other filter operators you can enter a partial value unless you are using the Sent Due and Closed search options which always require a complete date in the date format you chose in your Oracle E Business Suite general preferences The filter value fields for all search options are case insensitive If you leave the filter operator and filter value blank for a search option that option will not be included in the search Note The greater than less than after and before filter operators are not inclusive For example a search on the Sent option with the after operator displays only notifications sent after the date you specify not notifications sent on that date itself Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 41 e Subject Enter the subject line of the notifications e From Enter the role from which the notifications were sent e Message Attribute Enter the value of a message attribute belonging to the notification Message attributes hold dynamic content that is determined by the specific context in which a notification is sent For example a notification in a requisition workflow might have a message attribute for the requisition amount Message attribute values can be numbers dates or text e Sent Enter the date when the notifications were delivered using the date format you chose in your Oracle E Business Suite general preferences Select the field s calendar icon to display a calendar from
98. o not require a response Advanced Worklist Close Button The Close button is also available on the Advanced Worklist with the same functionality as for the self service home page Oracle Workflow User Personalizations B 1 Notification Details Page Printable Page Button The Printable Page button lets you display a notification in a format suitable for printing without the application header footer and navigation options Notification ID The Notification ID is displayed by default but you can hide it if you choose Personal Worklist Export Button The Export button lets you export your worklist to a Microsoft Excel file Choose the Export button and specify the directory and file name where you want to save the file Oracle Workflow saves the file as a Microsoft Excel Comma Separated Values File with an extension of csv The exported file contains the information from the columns displayed in the current worklist view for all notifications in the view Close Button The Close button is also available on the Personal Worklist with the same functionality as for the self service home page Note The Personal Worklist also includes a Personalize button for the View pull down menu however this button is separate from the Personalize Page global button and Personalize region links The Personalize button lets you create and maintain personalized views for displaying notifications This button is not controlled by the Pe
99. o save your changes Note The preconfigured views provided by Oracle Workflow always appear in the View menu You cannot change this setting for those views To update a view select the icon in the Update column for that view See To Create or Update a Personal Worklist View page 3 44 Note You can only update personal views that you created You cannot update the preconfigured views provided by Oracle Workflow To delete a view select the icon in the Delete column for that view Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 43 Note You can only delete personal views that you created You cannot delete the preconfigured views provided by Oracle Workflow 5 To create a view that is a duplicate of an existing view select the existing view that you want to copy and select the Duplicate button See To Create or Update a Personal Worklist View page 3 44 6 To create a new view select the Create View button See To Create or Update a Personal Worklist View page 3 44 To Create or Update a Personal Worklist View 1 Navigate to the Create View page the Duplicate View page or the Update View page by one of the following methods e In the Personalize Views page either select the Create View button select a view and select the Duplicate button or select the update icon for a view e After performing a search in the Simple Search page or the Advanced Search page select the Save Search button The Create View pag
100. oad the file containing your personal certificate and key onto the file system of your client PC and import the certificate into your browser For detailed instructions please refer to the online help for your browser In some cases the certificate authority may automatically import the certificate into your browser when you obtain the certificate 4 Use the certificate management functions in your browser or operating system to export your personal certficate in the DER encoded binary X 509 format The certificate should be exported as a file with an extension of cer 5 Giveyour system administrator the exported file for your personal certificate as well as the root certificate for your certificate authority and the intermediate certificates for your type of certificate if necessary The system administrator must load these certificates into Oracle Applications before you can use your personal certificate to sign Oracle Workflow notifications See Loading Certificates for Digital Signatures Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide Note Electronic signatures are currently supported only for the version of Oracle Workflow embedded in Oracle Applications Reviewing Notifications via Electronic Mail You can have your workflow notifications delivered to you as e mail messages if your notification preference is set to Plain text mail HTML mail with attachments HTML mail or Plain text mail with attachments in the User Prefe
101. ocess so that users can get a graphical depiction of their work item status The Workflow Monitor also displays a separate status summary for the work item the process and each activity in the process Overview of Oracle Workflow 1 3 If you are using the version of Oracle Workflow embedded in Oracle Applications and you have implemented Oracle Applications Manager you can also use the Oracle Workflow Manager component of Oracle Applications Manager as an additional administration tool for Oracle Workflow Oracle Applications Manager is a tool that provides administrative and diagnostic capabilities for concurrent processing Oracle Workflow and other functionality in Oracle Applications For more information please refer to the Oracle Applications Manager online help Also if you are using the standalone version of Oracle Workflow you can use the standalone Oracle Workflow Manager component available through Oracle Enterprise Manager as an additional administration tool for Oracle Workflow For more information please refer to the Oracle Workflow Manager online help Workflow Processes Oracle Workflow manages business processes according to rules that you define The rules which we call a workflow process definition include the activities that occur in the process and the relationship between those activities An activity in a process definition can be an automated function defined by a PL SQL stored procedure or an external function
102. ollowing criteria options e Notification ID enter a specific notification ID Note that if you specify a notification ID all other search criteria are ignored e Owner enter a role to identify all notifications owned by that role Click on the field s up arrow icon to display a list of roles from which to choose See Using a List of Values page 3 21 e To enter a role to identify all notifications sent to that role Click on the field s up arrow icon to display a list of roles from which to choose See Using a List of Values page 3 21 Note To identify notifications where the original owner delegated the work to another role without transferring ownership specify different roles in the Owner and To fields This combination of criteria is equivalent to selecting the Notifications Delegated to criterion in the standard Find Notifications screen 3 Choose the Find button to open the Worklist window To View Notifications from the Worklist 1 The Notifications Worklist either displays the notifications that match your search criteria if you navigated from the Find Notifications page or lists all your open notifications if you navigated directly to this page 3 18 Oracle Workflow User s Guide Worklist amp Worklist CDOUGLAS Netscape rie Worklist gt D E e O O 20 Requisition K WALKER Requisition 20003 Requisition for 29 MAR 2001 29 MAR 2001 PDA for 2 500 00 requires your approval fo Requisition K
103. on was sent e If this notification was reassigned through the Worklist web pages the From column shows the user who reassigned the notification to the current recipient e If this notification is a request for more information the From column shows the user who sent the request e If this notification is a response providing more information the From column shows the user who sent the response e Additionally the From role for a notification may be set by special logic in the workflow process See FROM_ROLE Attribute Oracle Workflow Developer s Guide Worklist Access The Advanced Worklist also lets you grant access to your worklist to another user That user can then act as your proxy to handle the notifications in your list on your behalf You can either grant a user access for a specific period or allow the user s access to continue indefinitely The worklist access feature lets you allow another user to handle your notifications without giving that user access to any other privileges or responsibilities that you have in Oracle Applications However note that a user who has access to your worklist can view all the details of your notifications and take most actions that you can take on the notifications Ensure that you take all necessary security considerations into account when you choose to grant worklist access to another user If another user has granted you access to his or her worklist you can switch the Advanced Workl
104. online version of the notification instead Navigate to the Notification Details page to view the content of the notification and submit your response See To View the Details of a Notification page 3 30 Example Direct Response Instructions Following is a set of response instructions and examples of three possible responses Response Instructions Enter the Action on line 1 Do you approve Value must be one of the following default is Reject Approve Reject Enter the Review Comments on line 2 Value must be 2000 bytes or less Enter the Required Date on line 3 If there is no required date leave this blank Value must be a date in the form DD MON YYYY Enter the Maximum Amount on line 4 This is the maximum approved amount Value must be anumber Default is 1500 Example Valid Response A Approve Approve Let me know if this item meets expectations 01 JAN 1998 1000 00 Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 7 Example Valid Response B Reject Reject Too expensive Note The blank lines in this response indicate acceptance of the default values for those response values Example Valid Response C Reject Reject This item is too expensive Please find a replacement that is of lower cost or else include additional justification for why this item should be approved 01 JAN 1998 1000 00 To Respond to an HTML E mail Notification 1 Your HTML formatted
105. opers create view or modify a business process with simple drag and drop operations Using the Workflow Builder you can create and modify all workflow objects including activities item types and messages See Workflow Processes page 1 4 At any time you can add remove or change workflow activities or set up new prerequisite relationships among activities You can easily work with a summary level model of your workflow expanding activities within the workflow as needed to greater levels of detail And you can operate Oracle Workflow Builder from a desktop PC or from a disconnected laptop PC Workflow Engine The Workflow Engine embedded in the Oracle Database implements process definitions at runtime The Workflow Engine monitors workflow states and coordinates the routing of activities for a process Changes in workflow state such as the completion of workflow activities are signaled to the engine via a PL SQL API or a Java API Based on flexibly defined workflow rules the engine determines which activities are eligible to run and then runs them The Workflow Engine supports sophisticated workflow rules including looping branching parallel flows and subflows Business Event System The Business Event System is an application service that uses the Oracle Advanced Queuing AQ infrastructure to communicate business events between systems The Business Event System consists of the Event Manager which lets you register subscriptions
106. ormation for a Workflow Monitoring Workflow Processes with the Self Service Monitor The Self Service Monitor in Oracle Applications lets you view and administer workflows that you own You can use the monitor to review the notifications sent by a workflow check the progress of the workflow by viewing the status diagram and examine participant responses to notifications sent by the workflow If you have workflow administrator privileges you can also perform administrative operations within the monitor to control the processing performed for a workflow or handle an error You can cancel a workflow that you no longer want to run or you can reassign a notification that you want to send to a different recipient Workflow administrator privileges are assigned in the Workflow Configuration page See Setting Global User Preferences Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide Note If you intervene in a workflow process with an administrative operation such as reassigning a notification then Oracle Workflow updates the audit trail for the process to show that you performed that operation Note For information about the Workflow Monitor available in standalone Oracle Workflow see Workflow Monitor Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide 1 Viewing Workflows in the Status Monitor page 4 2 2 Viewing Notification History page 4 3 3 Viewing a Status Diagram page 4 3 Monitoring Workflow Processes 4 1 4 Viewing Participant Responses page 4 6
107. osed or canceled status of the notification Select the From Type Subject Sent Due or Status column heading to sort the list by that column By default the list is sorted by sent date from most recent to oldest and then by subject in alphabetical order 5 To collectively reassign a group of notifications select the notifications you want and select the Reassign button See To Reassign a Notification to Another User page 3 32 6 You can navigate to the full details of any notification and act on the notification by clicking on the notification s Subject link or by selecting the notification and then choosing Open See To View the Details of a Notification page 3 30 7 To define vacation rules select the Vacation Rules link See To View and Maintain Vacation Rules page 3 36 3 40 Oracle Workflow User s Guide To save your current search criteria as a personalized view for the worklist select the Save Search button See To Create or Update a Personal Worklist View page 3 44 You can also select the Advanced Search button to perform a search with more complex criteria or select the Worklist Views button to navigate back to the Worklist See To Perform an Advanced Search for Notifications page 3 41 To Perform an Advanced Search for Notifications 1 2 Navigate to the Advanced Search page Specify how you want to apply search criteria to locate specific notifications e Search results where each must contain all
108. ou selected All as the item type for the rule the Vacation Rule Response page appears Skip to step 6 e If you selected a specific item type the Vacation Rule Notification page appears Continue with step 4 In the Vacation Rule Notification page select the notification message to which this rule applies or select All if you want this rule to apply to all notifications in the selected item type Choose the Next button If you choose to update a rule from the Vacation Rules page choose All in the Vacation Rule Item Type page or choose a notification in the Vacation Rule Notification page the Vacation Rule Response page appears The fields in this page vary depending on the item type s and notification s to which this rule applies For example if your rule applies to all item types you can automatically reassign all the notifications to another user but you cannot define an automatic response to all the notifications since different notifications may have different response attributes Enter values in the Start Date and End Date fields to specify the period that this rule should be active If you leave the Start Date blank the rule is effective immediately If you leave the End Date blank the rule is effective indefinitely Important Since you can define different rules for the same notification s to be effective at different times Oracle Workflow allows you to define multiple rules for the same notification s You sho
109. ouble quotes to delimit your response you can validly use a single quote character within your response value For example a response to a Comment prompt could be entered as follows Comment This proposal isn t acceptable However you cannot validly use another double quote character within your response value in the default format If you want to use the double quote character within your response value you can optionally enter your response in one of the following alternate formats You can use different formats for different responses within the same response message e You can enter a backslash as an escape character before the double quote For example a response to a Comment prompt could be entered as follows Comment The Equipment proposal is approved e You can delete the two double quotes and enclose your response between two single quotes instead to delimit the response value For example Comment The Equipment proposal is approved e You can delete the two double quotes and enclose your response between a left bracket and a right bracket instead to delimit the response value For example Comment The Equipment proposal is approved 5 When you are satisfied with your response use the Send command of the mail application to send your reply Note If you send an invalid response the Notification System sends you an invalid response message If you respond to
110. play in the view and the order in which to display them The Columns Displayed list shows the columns that are currently set to display while the Available Columns list shows the columns that are not currently set to display but that you can choose to add 3 44 Oracle Workflow User s Guide 10 11 e To add a column to the view select the column in the Available Columns list and choose the Move button You can also choose the Move All button to add all available columns e To remove a column from the view select the column in the Columns Displayed list and choose the Remove button You can also choose the Remove All button to remove all the columns e To specify the order in which the columns are displayed select a column in the Columns Displayed list and use the top up down or bottom arrow buttons to move the column to the position you want in the list Ifyou want to change the display names for the notification property columns in the view select the Rename Columns Totaling button In the Rename Columns Totaling page enter the new name for each column and select the Apply button In the Sort Settings region you can specify up to three levels of sorting for the notifications in the view For each level of sorting select the notification property column by which you want to sort and specify whether to sort in ascending or descending order In the Search Query to Filter Data in your Table region specify how you want to app
111. plications within the enterprise as well as integration of a company s systems with trading partners and business to business exchanges Oracle Workflow automates and streamlines business processes both within and beyond your enterprise supporting traditional applications based workflow as well as e business integration workflow Oracle Workflow is unique in providing a workflow solution for both internal processes and business process coordination between applications Routing Information Business processes today involve getting many types of information to multiple people according to rules that are constantly changing With so much information available and in so many different forms how do you get the right information to the right people Oracle Workflow lets enterprises provide each person with all the information they need to take action Oracle Workflow can route supporting information to each decision maker in a business process including people both inside and outside the enterprise Defining and Modifying Business Rules Oracle Workflow lets you define and continuously improve your business processes using a drag and drop process designer Unlike workflow systems that simply route documents from one user to another with some approval steps Oracle Workflow lets you model sophisticated business processes You can define processes that loop branch into parallel flows and then rendezvous decompose into subflows and more Because
112. pplications Oracle Applications User Interface Standards for Forms Based Products This guide contains the user interface UI standards followed by the Oracle Applications development staff It describes the UI for the forms based Oracle Applications products and how to apply this UI to the design of an application built using Oracle Forms Oracle eTechnical Reference Manuals Each eTechnical Reference Manual eTRM contains database diagrams and a detailed description of database tables forms reports and programs for a specific Oracle Applications product This information helps you convert data from your existing applications integrate Oracle Applications data with non Oracle applications and write custom reports for Oracle Applications products Oracle eTRM is available on OracleMetaLink Oracle Applications Message Reference Manual This manual describes Oracle Applications messages This manual is available in HTML format on the documentation CD ROM for Release 11i Training and Support xii Training Oracle offers a complete set of training courses to help you and your staff master Oracle Workflow and reach full productivity quickly These courses are organized into functional learning paths so you take only those courses appropriate to your job or area of responsibility You have a choice of educational environments You can attend courses offered by Oracle University at any one of our many Education Centers you can arra
113. processes Business Event See Event Cost A relative value that you can assign to a function or notification activity to inform the Workflow Engine how much processing is required to complete the activity Assign a higher cost to longer running complex activities The Workflow Engine can be set to operate with a threshold cost Any activity with a cost above the Workflow Engine threshold cost gets set to DEFERRED and is not processed A background engine can be set up to poll for and process deferred activities Glossary 1 Glossary 2 Concurrent Manager An Oracle Applications component that manages the queuing of requests and the operation of concurrent programs Concurrent Process An instance of running a non interactive data dependent function simultaneously with online operations Each time you submit a request a concurrent manager processes your request starts a concurrent process and runs a concurrent program Concurrent Program A concurrent program is an executable file that performs a specific task such as posting a journal entry or generating a report Concurrent Queue A list of concurrent requests awaiting completion by a concurrent manager Each concurrent manager has a queue of requests waiting in line to be run If your system administrator sets up your Oracle Application to have simultaneous queuing your request can wait to run in more than one queue Directory Services A mapping of
114. r preferences if that language is set up in your installation See Setting Up Additional Languages Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide Note In Oracle Applications you can select a session level language in the login window which overrides your user level language preference for that session However Oracle Workflow still uses your user level language preference to determine the language in which e mail notifications are sent You can use the Preferences page to set your user level language preference which is also stored in the ICX Language profile option See Preferences Oracle Applications User s Guide In some cases such as if you are away on vacation you will not be able to view or respond to your notifications in a timely manner Rather than create a bottleneck in a workflow process you can take advantage of vacation rules also known as routing rules or automatic notification processing rules to direct Oracle Workflow to automatically manage the notifications for you Electronic Signatures In Oracle Applications notifications can require that your response be signed by a password based or certificate based electronic signature Password based signature You must enter your Oracle Applications user name and password to sign your response Note Oracle Workflow supports password based signatures based on Oracle Application Object Library FND passwords If your site has implemented single sign on functionality through
115. r subset of notifications The Worklist lets you simultaneously close multiple FYI type notifications that do not require a response Simply check Select for the each FYI type notification you wish to close and then choose Close You can also collectively reassign a group of notifications Check Select for the notifications you wish to reassign then choose Reassign A Reassign Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 19 page appears that lets you specify to whom and how you wish to reassign the notification s See To Reassign a Notification to Another User page 3 21 6 You can navigate to the full details of any notification and act on the notification by clicking on the notification s Subject link To View the Details of a Notification 1 Inthe Detail Notification page the full details of the notification appear in the upper frame and the response section of the notification appears in the lower frame You can scroll through or resize these frames 2 The upper frame may include inline images as well as links embedded in the message body to additional information sources for the notification A reference URL link opens another Web browser window and connects to a specified URL 3 The upper frame may also include attachment icons that appear after the message body These icons also link to additional information sources for the notification A notification can include the following types of attachment links e A ref
116. rences web page and your workflow administrator sets up a notification mailer to run If your e mail reader can only support plain text messages with no attachments set your notification preference to Plain text mail If your e mail reader can interpret and display HTML formatting in the body of a message select HTML mail with attachments or HTML mail as your notification preference HTML mail can include images and provide direct links to supporting information sources that you may need access to to complete a notification If you choose HTML mail with attachments the e mail messages include links to the Notification Detail page as standard attachments If you choose HTML mail the e mail messages do not include these standard attachments If custom attachments have been defined for individual notifications in a process however those attachments will still be included An HTML formatted notification can also include an option for you to request more information about the notification from another user before you respond if the notification is defined to allow such requests See HIDE MOREINFO Attribute Oracle Workflow Developer s Guide If your e mail reader can only display plain text in the body of a message but can also display attachments to the message set your notification preference to Plain text mail with Attachments An e mail notification that requires a response maintains an Open status until yo
117. rklist 1 Use a web browser to navigate to the Personal Worklist using a responsibility and navigation path specified by your system administrator To perform a one time search to locate notifications that match your criteria select the Simple Search button From the Simple Search page you can also navigate to the Advanced Search page See To Perform a Simple Search for Notifications page 3 40 To specify which notifications to display in the Worklist select the type of notifications you want from the View pull down menu and select Go Oracle Workflow provides the following preconfigured views e All Notifications e FYI Notifications e Notifications From Me e Open Notifications e To Do Notifications You can also create your own personalized views to display notifications that match criteria that you specify To maintain your personalized views select the Personalize button See To View and Maintain Personal Worklist Views page 3 43 The views that are available may also depend on the responsibility through which you access the Personal Worklist The Personal Worklist shows the following information for each notification e From the role from which the notification was sent This column is displayed when you view notifications sent to you e To the role to which the notification was sent This column is displayed when you view notifications sent from you e Type display name of the item type to which the workflow proc
118. rnate formats You can use different formats for different responses within the same response message e You can enter a backslash as an escape character before the apostrophe For example a response to a Comment prompt could be entered as follows Comment This proposal isn t acceptable e You can delete the two single quotes and enclose your response between two double quotes instead to delimit the response value For example Comment This proposal isn t acceptable e You can delete the two single quotes and enclose your response between a left bracket and a right bracket instead to delimit the response value For example Comment This proposal isn t acceptable 5 When you are satisfied with your response use the Send command of the mail application to send your reply Note If you send an invalid response the Notification System sends you an invalid response message If you respond to a notification that has been canceled you get a message informing you that the notification was canceled Similarly if you respond to a notification that was already previously responded to you get a message informing you that the notification is closed 6 In addition to the response links an HTML formatted notification can also include a Request Information link Choose this link if you want to request more information about the notification from another user before you respond to the notification The Reque
119. rofile options and seed data for this interval Multiple Reporting Currencies in Oracle Applications If you use the Multiple Reporting Currencies feature to record transactions in more than one currency use this manual before implementing Oracle Applications This manual details additional steps and setup considerations for implementing Oracle Applications with this feature Multiple Organizations in Oracle Applications This guide describes how to set up and use Oracle Applications Multiple Organization support feature so you can define and support different organization structures when running a single installation of Oracle Applications Oracle Applications Flexfields Guide This guide provides flexfields planning setup and reference information for the Oracle Applications implementation team as well as for users responsible for the ongoing maintenance of Oracle Applications product data This guide also provides information on creating custom reports on flexfields data Oracle Applications Developer s Guide This guide contains the coding standards followed by the Oracle Applications development staff It describes the Oracle Application Object Library components needed to implement the Oracle Applications user interface described in the Oracle Applications User Interface Standards for Forms Based Products It also provides information to help you build your custom Oracle Forms Developer forms so that they integrate with Oracle A
120. rsonalize Self Service Defn profile option but always appears on the Personal Worklist The Personalize Page global button and Personalize region links on the other hand let you personalize other features on a page beyond defining views However these options appear only if the Personalize Self Service Defn profile option is set to Yes B 2 Oracle Workflow User s Guide Glossary Access Level A numeric value ranging from 0 to 1000 Every workflow user operates at a specific access level The access level defines whether the user can modify certain workflow data You can only modify data that is protected at a level equal to or higher than your access level Activity A unit of work performed during a business process Activity Attribute A parameter that has been externalized for a function activity that controls how the function activity operates You define an activity attribute by displaying the activity s Attributes properties page in the Activities window You assign a value to an activity attribute by displaying the activity node s Attribute Values properties page in the Process window Agent A named point of communication within a system Agent Listener A type of service component that processes event messages on inbound agents Attribute See Activity Attribute Item Type Attribute or Message Attribute Background Engines A supplemental Workflow Engine that processes deferred or timed out activities or stuck
121. s The Notification System sends notifications to and processes responses from users in a workflow Electronic notifications are routed to a role which can be an individual user or a group of users Any user associated with that role can act on the notification Each notification includes a message that contains all the information a user needs to make a decision The information may be embedded in the message body or attached as a separate document Oracle Workflow interprets each notification activity response to decide how to move on to the next workflow activity Electronic Mail Integration Electronic mail e mail users can receive notifications of outstanding work items and can respond to those notifications using their e mail application of choice An e mail notification can include an attachment that provides another means of responding to the notification Internet Enabled Workflow Any user with access to a standard Web browser can be included in a workflow Web users can access a Notification Web page to see their outstanding work items then navigate to additional pages to see more details or provide a response Monitoring and Administration Workflow administrators and users can view the progress of a work item in a workflow process by connecting to the Workflow Monitor using a standard Web browser that supports Java The Workflow Monitor displays an annotated view of the process diagram for a particular instance of a workflow pr
122. s defined in Oracle Workflow Builder which can be saved as a flat file or in a database Process Activity A process modelled as an activity so that it can be referenced by other processes Protection Level A numeric value ranging from 0 to 1000 that represents who the data is protected from for modification When workflow data is defined it can either be set to customizable 1000 meaning anyone can modify it or it can be assigned a protection level that is equal to the access level of the user defining the data In the latter case only users operating at an access level equal to or lower than the data s protection level can modify the data Result Code The internal name of a result value as defined by the result type Result Type The name of the lookup type that contains an activity s possible result values Result Value The value returned by a completed activity Role One or more users grouped by a common responsibility or position Service Component Container An instance of a service or servlet that manages the running of the individual service components that belong to it The container monitors the status of its components and handles control events for itself and for its components Service Component An instance of a Java program which has been defined according to the Generic Service Component Framework standards so that it can be managed through this framework Subscription See Event Subscription System
123. s page to view the content of the notification and submit your response See To View the Details of a Notification page 3 30 To Respond to a Plain Text E mail Notification Using Direct Response 1 Your plain text e mail notification includes information that is helpful for you to respond to the notification Depending on the notification the information may appear as references to other sources or as attachments Some attachments depending on their content may only be viewable if you display your notification using the Notification web pages See Viewing Notifications from a Web Browser page 3 14 2 To respond to your notification use the Reply command in your mail application to reply to the original e mail notification 3 Include the text of the original notification message in your reply This text contains the special notification ID and access key that a notification mailer requires to identify the notification you are responding to 4 Follow the syntax instructions in the notification message carefully when formatting your reply The response values must be within the first lines of your reply where each line represents a separate response value If a response value requires more than one line then the entire response value must be enclosed in double quotes Everything enclosed in the double quotes is counted as one line The Notification System interprets your response values literally so a value in uppercase is i
124. s to Web sites and access to content products and services from third parties Oracle is not responsible for the availability of or any content provided on third party Web sites You bear all risks associated with the use of such content If you choose to purchase any products or services from a third party the relationship is directly between you and the third party Oracle is not responsible for a the quality of third party products or services or b fulfilling any of the terms of the agreement with the third party including delivery of products or services and warranty obligations related to purchased products or services Oracle is not responsible for any loss or damage of any sort that you may incur from dealing with any third party Oracle JD Edwards PeopleSoft and Retek are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and or its affiliates Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners Contents Send Us Your Comments Preface 1 Overview of Oracle Workflow Overview of Oracle Workflow for Users Major Features and Definitions Workflow Processes 2 Oracle Workflow Home Page Accessing the Oracle Workflow Home Page Setting User Preferences Accessing the Oracle Workflow Self Service Home Page 3 Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses Overview of Notification Handling Reviewing Notifications via Electronic Mail Reviewing a Summary of Your Notifications via Electronic Mail Viewi
125. square brackets You should omit the square brackets to pass the optional argument 3 22 Oracle Workflow User s Guide Replace the bracketed italicized text in the above URL as follows e lt webagent gt represents the base URL of the web agent configured for Oracle Workflow in your Web server See Setting Global User Preferences Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide e lt rolename gt represents an internal role name that you want to query routing rules for Note however that you can query for roles other than your current role only if your current role has workflow administrator privileges See Setting Global User Preferences Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide If you have workflow administrator privileges you can display a web page that lets you find the routing rules for a specified role Enter lt webagent gt wf route find Enter the user ID of a role and choose Find Notification Rules Page Find Notification Rules Netscape Notification Rules E 2 Find Important Both of these URLs access secured pages so if you have not yetlogged on as valid user in the current web session you will be prompted to do so before the page appears Note You can also access the Notification Rules web page from the Oracle Workflow home page See Accessing the Oracle Workflow Home Page page 2 1 2 The Notification Rules page for the role appears listing all existing rules for the current role
126. st Information link automatically generates a plain text e mail reply The reply contains the correct Reply To e mail address as well as a request template in the message body The request template contains the required notification ID and access key that identify the notification you are responding to It also contains a prompt for you to enter the user from whom you want to request information along with a list of users who have previously participated in the workflow process and Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 11 a prompt for you to enter the question you want to ask that user When you are satisfied with your request use the Send command of the mail application to send your reply Important Your workflow may include special logic to restrict requesting more information on notifications If so the Request Information link is not displayed in the e mail notification See HIDE_MOREINFO Attribute Oracle Workflow Developer s Guide 7 If another user sent you this notification with a request for more information click the response link and enter the information you want to provide between the quotes following the response prompt When you are satisfied with your response use the Send command of the mail application to send your reply 8 If this notification requires a password based signature or certificate based digital signature in your response you cannot respond to the notification through e mail In
127. submit your response by choosing the Submit button After you submit your response the status of the notification changes to Closed If you launch the Notification Worklist from Oracle Applications your Response section may display an attached form icon that lets you drill down to an Oracle Applications form to complete your response If a notification does not require a response the Response section indicates that Choose the Close button in the Response section to close the notification so that it does not appear in your worklist the next time you view your open notifications If you revisit a notification that is closed the Notification Details page shows the result of the notification activity if any and the Response section displays any additional response values that were submitted Also the notification header shows the user who responded to or closed the notification If a notification for one user was closed by another user through access to the first user s worklist the name of the second user who actually took the action is displayed as the responder If you want another user to respond to the notification instead of you choose the Reassign button the Delegate button or the Transfer button in the Response section e The Reassign button appears if you have access to reassign a notification to another user either by delegating the notification or by transferring complete ownership of the notification e The Delegate
128. t even if the user s access status was previously Active Note When you delete a user the record of the user s access no longer appears in your Worklist Access page If you want to keep this record for reference you can simply set the end date to end the user s access rather than deleting the user Related Topics Viewing Notifications from the Personal Worklist page 3 38 Vacation Rules for Oracle Applications Use vacation rules to handle your notifications automatically when you are not available to manage your notifications directly such as when you are on vacation You can define rules to perform the following actions automatically when a notification arrives e Reassign the notification to another user Note A workflow may include special logic to restrict reassignment of notifications If so Oracle Workflow does not apply any vacation rules to reassign those notifications but simpy delivers the notifications to your worklist See HIDE_REASSIGN Attribute Oracle Workflow Developer s Guide Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 35 e Respond to the notification with a predefined response or close a notification that does not require a response e Deliver the notification to your worklist as usual with no further action Use the Vacation Rules page to define your rules for automatic notification processing Your workflow administrator can also define rules for you See Defining Vacation Rules for Users
129. t is DD Mon RRRR If you do not specify a date format then the date format defaults to DD MON YYYY Note Oracle Workflow may include a time element when relevant for certain displayed dates even if you do not include a time format with your date format If you specify a time format along with your date format then in those situations when Oracle Workflow displays a time element you will see two time elements following your date Leave the Document Home Node field blank This functionality is reserved for future use In the Send me electronic mail notifications section select a notification preference e HTML mail with attachments send you notifications as HTML e mail with attached links to the Notification Details page Your mail reader must be able to display HTML formatting in the message body e Plain text mail with HTML attachments send you notifications as plain text e mail but include the HTML formatted version of the notifications and links to the Notification Details page as attachments Oracle Workflow Home Page 2 5 Plain text mail send you notifications as plain text e mail Plain text summary mail send you a summary of all notifications as plain text e mail You must use the Worklist web page to take action on individual notifications Do not send me mail do not send you notifications as e mail You must view the notifications and take action from the Worklist web page HTML mail send you notifica
130. te the notifications The Transfer button appears if you only have access to transfer ownership of the notifications See To Reassign a Notification to Another User page 3 32 and Setting the WF Notification Reassign Mode Profile Option Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide Note Your workflow may include special logic to restrict reassignment of notifications If any of the notifications that you selected are restricted in this way Oracle Workflow displays an error message when you select the Reassign Delegate or Transfer button In this case you should deselect the restricted notifications before performing the reassignment See HIDE REASSIGN Attribute Oracle Workflow Developer s Guide 4 The Status at a Glance region displays the five most recent workflows that you own and that were started within the last two weeks For each workflow the list Oracle Workflow Home Page 2 7 displays the status workflow type workflow identifier start date and completion date Select the Workflow Type Workflow or Started column heading to sort the list by that column e To view the error details for an errored workflow select the error icon or the error link in the Status column See Viewing Error Information for a Workflow page 4 6 e To view the notification history for a workflow select the workflow identifier link in the Workflow column See Viewing Notification History page 4 3 e To view the complete list of all your workflows
131. tifications 3 32 Detail Notification web page 3 20 Direct Response e mail 3 4 E E mail notifications 1 3 3 3 example direct response instructions 3 7 summaries 3 14 templates for 3 4 Electronic signatures 3 32 3 32 F Find Notifications web page 3 16 G Granting access to Worklist 3 27 3 35 H Header attributes 3 30 H L Index ome page 2 1 self service 2 6 List of values in a web interface 3 21 M Monitor Self Service 4 1 Monitoring work items 1 3 More Information N for notifications 3 34 N N N N N N N N N avigation paths A 1 Jotification access keys 3 4 Jotification Details page 3 30 Jotification IDs 3 4 otification method 3 1 Jotification preference 2 5 Jotification summaries via e mail 3 14 otification Web page 1 3 reassigning notifications 3 21 otifications 3 1 advanced search 3 41 delegating 3 32 dependence on directory services 3 1 HTML formatted e mail 3 8 personalized views 3 38 plain text e mail using direct response 3 6 plain text e mail using templated response 3 4 plain text e mail with attachments 3 12 reassign in Notification Web page 3 21 reassign via e mail 3 13 reassigning 3 32 requesting more information 3 34 responding from the Notification Details page 3 30 responding with Notification Web page 3 21 searching 3 38 Index 1 simple search 3 40 via e mail 3 3 vi
132. tions as HTML e mail only without any standard attachments If custom attachments have been defined for individual notifications in a process however those attachments will still be included Your mail reader must be able to display HTML formatting in the message body Note The HTML summary mail preference is not applicable for standalone Oracle Workflow This notification preference is currently only available with Oracle Workflow embedded in Oracle Applications 7 Choose OK once you are satisfied with your changes Related Topics Notification Preferences Oracle Workflow Administrator s Guide Accessing the Oracle Workflow Self Service Home Page Use the Oracle Workflow self service home page to link to Oracle Workflow s web based self service features in Oracle Applications This page centralizes your access to the features Note Oracle Applications Framework Personalization provides the ability to customize Oracle self service web application pages If you are logged in as a user or with a responsibility for which the Personalize Self Service Defn profile option is set to Yes you can choose the Personalize button or Personalize Region links to create your personalizations For more information please refer to OracleMetaLink note 268969 1 Oracle Applications Framework Personalization Guide For information about features available for Oracle Workflow user Web pages through personalization see Oracle Workflow User Persona
133. to display a calendar from which you can select a date e Status Enter open closed or canceled as the notification status e Message Attribute Enter the value of a message attribute belonging to the notification Message attributes hold dynamic content that is determined by the specific context in which a notification is sent For example a notification in a requisition workflow might have a message attribute for the requisition amount Message attribute values can be numbers dates or text e To Enter the role to which the notifications were sent e Information Requested From Enter the role to which notifications that are requests for more information were sent e Closed Enter the date when the notifications were closed or canceled using the date format you chose in your Oracle E Business Suite general preferences Select the field s calendar icon to display a calendar from which you can select a date e Priority Enter high normal or low as the notification priority e Response Required Enter yes or no to specify whether the notifications require a response from the recipient e FYI Enter yes or no to specify whether the notifications are for your information FYI only and do not require a response e Notification ID Enter the numerical notification identifier e From Me Enter yes or no to specify whether the notifications are sent from you Note If your installation of Oracle Workflow is set up in a langu
134. to significant events and event activities which let you model business events within workflow processes 1 2 Oracle Workflow User s Guide When a local event occurs the subscribing code is executed in the same transaction as the code that raised the event Subscription processing can include executing custom code on the event information sending event information to a workflow process and sending event information to other queues or systems Workflow Definitions Loader The Workflow Definitions Loader is a utility program that moves workflow definitions between database and corresponding flat file representations You can use it to move workflow definitions from a development to a production database or to apply upgrades to existing definitions In addition to being a standalone server program the Workflow Definitions Loader is also integrated into Oracle Workflow Builder allowing you to open and save workflow definitions in both a database and file Complete Programmatic Extensibility Oracle Workflow lets developers include custom PL SQL procedures or external functions as activities in workflows Without modifying your application code you can have your own program run whenever the Workflow Engine detects that your programs prerequisites are satisfied Electronic Notifications Oracle Workflow lets you include users in your workflows to handle activities that cannot be automated such as approvals for requisitions or sales order
135. u respond to the notification For e mail notifications that do not require a response such as FYI For Your Information notifications your workflow administrator determines how the notification status is updated when setting up a notification mailer Depending on the setup configuration either Oracle Workflow automatically updates the status Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 3 of FYI notifications to Closed after sending you the notifications by e mail or those notifications maintain an Open status until you manually close them in the Worklist Web page Once you read an FYI message you can delete it from your inbox However if the notification mailers for your organization are set up to keep FYI notifications open after sending them by e mail you must also use the Worklist to manually close the notification even if you have already deleted the notification message from your e mail inbox There are two response methods for plain text e mail notifications templated response or direct response Your workflow administrator determines the response method for your organization when setting up a notification mailer For the templated response method you reply using the template of response prompts provided in the notification and enter your response values between the quotes following each prompt For the direct response method you enter your response values directly as the first lines of your reply Both template
136. u can respond to the notification in one of three ways e Use your mail reader s Reply command to respond following the instructions in the plain text message body See To Respond to a Plain Text E mail Notification Using Templated Response page 3 4 and To Respond to a Plain Text E mail Notification Using Direct Response page 3 6 e Display the HTML Message Body attachment and respond by selecting one of the response links at the bottom of the HTML message body See To Respond to an HTML E mail Notification page 3 8 3 12 Oracle Workflow User s Guide e Choose the Notification Detail Link attachment to display the Notification Details web page See To View the Details of a Notification page 3 20 or To View the Details of a Notification for Oracle Applications page 3 30 Note Your Web browser must support JavaScript and Frames to open this attachment When you open the Notification Detail Link attachment it automatically attempts to establish a web session with your web server In doing so it authenticates your access verifies that your notification is still open and displays a message if the notification is already closed Depending on the configuration of your Oracle Workflow installation if you are not already logged in you may be prompted to log in before you can access the Notification Details page Otherwise if your configuration allows you can access the Notification Details page for this notification directly but
137. uld be careful to ensure that rules for the same notification s do not overlap in their effective dates If multiple rules are effective for the same notification Oracle Workflow picks one rule at random to apply In the Message field enter any text that you want to append to the notification when the rule is applied The comments appear in a special comments field when the notification is reassigned or automatically responded to Choose the action that you want this rule to perform e Reassign Forward the notification to a designated user e Respond Respond to the message with a set of predefined response values e Deliver notifications to me regardless of any general rules Leave the notification in your Worklist with no automatic processing You can define a rule with this action to exclude a certain subset of notifications from a more encompassing rule For example suppose you have a rule that reassigns all your notification messages to another user but you want to exclude a subset of notifications from that rule To accomplish this you can define a new rule that applies only to that subset of notifications whose action is Deliver notifications to me Viewing Notifications and Processing Responses 3 37 10 If your rule action is Reassign select the type of user or role to which you want to reassign the notifications Then select the user or role you want within that type Note The assignee types correspond to
138. want to request more information from a different user you can submit a new request using the Request Information button in the Response section of the Notification Details page In this case your initial request is replaced by the new request and only the user to whom you sent the new request can respond with more information To Grant Access to Your Worklist 1 Navigate to the Worklist Access page by navigating to the Advanced Worklist and selecting the Worklist Access link The start and end dates for each user determine the access period when the user can view and act on your worklist The user s active or inactive status depends on whether the current date is within the access period Note If a user has an e mail address defined in Oracle Applications you can select the link in the User Name column to send e mail to that user 2 To grant access to another user choose the Grant Worklist Access button e Select the user you want and enter an optional description e Specify the start date when the user can begin accessing your worklist You can optionally also specify an end date after which the user will no longer have access or leave the end date blank to grant access indefinitely 3 To update the start and end dates of a user s access period select the Update icon for that user and enter your changes 4 To delete a user from the list select the Delete icon for that user The user will no longer have access to your worklis

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