BPM - Expense Report Tutorial

Question

Hi,
I am a newbie to ORA_BPM. So far, Ive been able to get through (builds & deploys without errors) activity 1 thru 4 and currently having a problem when running the work-flow app.
When I use the application as Peter Jones here are my observations:
1) Login as Peter Jones (individual contributor).
1.1) create 2 expense reports - under $25 and over $25
1.2) under $25 should be initially routed to Mary White (treasurer)
1.3) over $25 should be initially route to Paul Smith (Supervisor)
2) Login as Paul Smith - nothing is shown in his WorkItems/Inbox.
2.1) The over $25 expense report should be shown here
3) Login as Mary White - both reports are shown in her WorkItems/Inbox.
3.1) When I select one of the expense reports the "ConfirmReceipts" screen has no data from either of the expense reports?
The BPM tutorial seems to have a lot of errors in it and I've found the OTN forums helpful so far.
I appreciate any help anyone can provide.
Kerry

Answer 1

The problem's not on your end. The tutorial needs an overhaul especially around argument mapping.
Here's what you might do to fix your project.
1. Delete the extra instance variable in your Expense Report process named "reportSF". With the process open, and the Variables tab open, right mouse click the reportSF variable and click "Delete". You had two variables "report" and "reportSF" that store the same BPM Object throughout the process. While this is allowed, you set the "reportSF" in the Begin activity, but use the "report" variable throughout the process.
2. From the menu, click "File" -> "Save All". Note that after deleting the reportSF variable from the process you now have two errors in the "Problems" tab (if you do not see the problems tab, click "Windows" -> "Reset Perspective" -> click "Ok"). Note that there are two errors. One is in the End and one is in the Begin activity.
3. To fix the error in the End activity, double click the End activity -> click the dropdown that has "reportSF" and change it to the correct variable "report".
4. To fix the error in the Begin activity, double click the Begin activity -> click the dropdown that has "reportSF" and change it to the correct variable "report".
5. There is one more argument mapping problem. The outgoing argument variable that is set coming out of your Global Creation activity called "Create Expense Report" is "reportArg" (right mouse click the "Create Expense Report" activity -> click "Main Task" -> click the "Argument Mapping" button -> in the left panel click "Submit Report Out" -> change the variable on the left to be "reportSFArg". You could have used "reportArg" for this, but your Begin activity is expecting "reportSFArg" to be the variable with the incoming information already populated.
6. From the menu, click "File" -> "Save All" again. Start your engine and try it again.
Dan