Equivalent of Global Interactive Activity in 11g

Hello,
Is there an equivalent of Global Interactive (not Global Creation) activity in OBPM 11g? What I intend to do is to be able to have certain stand alone activities in the workflow bounded independently to different taskflows (there taskflows are associated with the business process but not directly linked to it). E.g. Let's say I have a requirement that the 'Manager' role in the workflow should be able to assign the primary process participants to different Line of Businesses based on day to day needs. All I need is a UI to achieve this. But I am also trying to leverage BPM roles so that only 'Managers' are able to see this link in their workspace / worklist and able to access this UI. We have previously implemented this using 'Global Interactive' in 10g. All we did was to place the activity in a manager swimlane and associate a screenflow to it. Trying to understand what 11g has to offer for this requirements.
Thanks,
Gaurav

One of the things that helps end-users train themselves on a process is to present a picture of where a work item instance that they are working on is located in the process. This is commonly referred to as the “you are here” map. In Oracle BPM 10g, this is done like this:
1.     Add a Global Interactive activity to an abstract role (role with a name).
2.     Name this new Global activity “You are here”.
3.     Click Runtime in the left pane and check the "Has instance access" (do not check the checkbox labeled “Use activity for instance presentation").
4.     Click the OK button.
5.     Right mouse click this new activity and select Main task from the popup.
6.     Change the Implementation type to "Show Process Image".
7.     Click OK.
8.     Save the project and reload the project.
9.     Start the WorkSpace again. Log out and relogin.
10.     On the right side of the inbox, for an existing work item instance click the "Select action" dropdown.
11.     Click the new "You are here" action.
12.     Note the red flag above the activity where this work item instance is located in the process.
Hope this helps,
Dan

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Thanks,
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1.     Add a Global Interactive activity to an abstract role (role with a name).
2.     Name this new Global activity “You are here”.
3.     Click Runtime in the left pane and check the "Has instance access" (do not check the checkbox labeled “Use activity for instance presentation").
4.     Click the OK button.
5.     Right mouse click this new activity and select Main task from the popup.
6.     Change the Implementation type to "Show Process Image".
7.     Click OK.
8.     Save the project and reload the project.
9.     Start the WorkSpace again. Log out and relogin.
10.     On the right side of the inbox, for an existing work item instance click the "Select action" dropdown.
11.     Click the new "You are here" action.
12.     Note the red flag above the activity where this work item instance is located in the process.
Hope this helps,
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I have a requirement where link in right hand side dropdown at instance level should be shown only when instance is completed. For this I am using one global interactive activity with 'has instance access' option checked and also 'read only' option checked. It is visible when instance is completed as well as when alive. I dont want the later part. Could anyone advice?
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Yasmin,
You need to persist your instance variables by inserting them into the database table. And then pull your compleled instances based a known parameter (let say a defined instance id that can be an oracle or sql row id).
Does this make sense to you?
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1. Global Interactive activity for unassigning any task at any time from the instance drop down.
2. A screenflow is called in the Global Interactive activity for unassign.
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Try executing the code at the process level or use the product feature 'Unassign'.Hope it helps.
Regards,
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Hi All,
I have a requirement where when instance is completed, I need to provide a link at instance end through global interactive activity. Once user clicks on that activity a screen appears where user clicks on button and new instance should be created.
Now the problem is I tried notifying the main process and then use process creation activity to create instance but this cannot be used as instance is already completed.
Second approach i used is processinstance.create method. But new insatnce is not getting created. Also i m not getting any exception.
Please reply as this is very important requirement.
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Yasmin

Create a new instance before the END activity is executed..
After the screenflow for the global activity pass a variable to collect the button value on ON CLICK..
If button value = true, then call a sub-process else END.. The sub-process does not need any Global activity to start the process . The values would be passed from the BEGIN activity of the sub-process itself.

11g equivalent for the oracle bpm 10g global interactive

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What is the 11g equivalent for the oracle bpm 10g global interactive activity?
Thansk!

The Initiator Task is the 11g equivalent to Global Interactive Activity.
Find more information here
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14571_01/doc.1111/e15176/human_task_bpmpd.htm
and here
http://jamessmith73.wordpress.com/oracle-soa-bpm-11g/simple-bpm-task-initiator/

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Currently, I have a function say "Display time" defined in a global interactive activity and I have two processes in my project.I have placed one each in every process.However in the application panel , there comes two applications with the same name i.e both global interactives.Is there a way to define only one global interactive for both the processes so that i have only one application in the application panel.
Thanx in advance
Ritu

Hi,
I tried invoking the same global interactive activity but no success.Actually I am calling a PAPI method 'ClientBusinessProcess.connectTo(processId)' and I guess because of this, my functionality is not excuted since it is not able to connect to the other process where the global inetractive is not placed.
Can anybody suggest any solution for the scenario explained below?
Say there are two processes ,Process 1 and Process 2 and I have a global interactive activty placed in process 1 with the method 'ClientBusinessProcess.connectTo(processId)' .Now I want to execute the same global interactive with same method from Process 2 .
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Ritu

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I need to update some project variables through a global interactive activity.However,the only problem is that my global interactive does not have instance access.This is so because of i am trying to club two or three funtonalities at one place so that the user has less number of clicks.Hence can anybody suggest any other alternative way to acheive the same.
Any kind of suggestions will be of great help...
Ritu

Backing up a bit, a correlation is like a primary key on a database table. It is a way you can uniquely identify and notify a work item instance in a process. Notifications into a process can either use the unique id.id (e.g. "/ProcessName#Default-1.0/1/0@ProjectName") which is difficult to determine, or a correlation (e.g. order "22378").
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If you have not done this before, here are the high level steps you'll need to do as a developer:
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2. Change the Message Wait activity's property to "Allows interruptions"
3. Change the Message Wait activity to receive input argument(s)
4. Modify the Message Wait activity to receive the correlation
5. Add an Interactive or Automatic activity beside the Message Wait activity
6. Add a transition from the Message Wait activity to the Interactive or Automatic activity.
7. Add the logic inside the Interactive or Automatic activity to update the project variables and to send the work item instance back to where it was interrupted in the process.
B. Create the correlation in the process
1. Create the correlation inside the process for the instance using either an automatic activity or the Begin activity
C. Create the Global Interactive activity to Notify the process
1. Add a Global Interactive activity
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D. Remove the Correlation from the process
1. Once there is no more need for the correlation, remove the correlation inside an Automatic activity (commonly done in an Automatic activity just before the End activity)
In answer to your question - just a guess, but you are getting the correlation error probably because you might not have done one or more of these items listed above correctly (specifically items A3, A4, B1 and / or C2).
Dan

11g Initiator equivalent for the 10g global interactive..

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Can i use a Initiator (OBPM 11g) as a global interactive (OBPM 10.3g)?... how can i make it the equivalent?.
Any solution?.
P.D.: when i click the link (initiator) in the workspace, i need to consult something, and not have to create an instance...
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Matias

There is no equivalent task you can model in your process that won't create an instance. Although it is possible to automatically end your process instance from within your task flow and then not have the taskflow return an outcome, a better solution would be the global/external applications links you can setup in the workspace. There is a sample documented for this, although you would somehow want to check the roles of your users to show/hide the links probably. These links would then go to stand alone ADF taskflows where you can present anything you would like without a process instance.
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Looks like part of your thread was cut off. This is mostly to see if I might be able to fill in the blanks.
I'm guessing you are thinking about using a Global Creation activity to perhaps bring up a list of claims and that the row or rows returned from the database could each create a separate new work item instance. Did I get that right?
If that's correct, don't use a Global Creation. Instead use a Global Interactive to display the rows. For each row approved an new work item instance might then be created in the process for each one you approved. You'd use a Screenflow behind the Global Interactive. Inside the screenflow you'd have an automatic task to retrieve the rows from the database. This would then flow to a Interactive task inside the screenflow that has been assigned a BPM Object presentation to display the rows inside a Group. You'd then follow this with another automatic task that looks at the Group (array) of items selected in the UI and then programmatically create a work item instance for each one selected.
Hope this helps,
Dan

Should we use Interactive or Global Interactive?

Dear Friend Should we use Interactive or Global Interactive if the activity has to be executed from outside using PAPI/PAPI WS and the activity must be passed some arguments to update instance variables?
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Interactives and Global Interactives are completely different, in that one is already in an process flow (interactive), and the other can be invoked globally via the workspace (or other manner)... I don't think you want to use either of these...
It sounds like you want to use Notifications...
Please give more details as to what you are trying to accomplish, but it sounds like you have an instance going through a process, and at some point you want to change instance variables for it?
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I have a scenario where i have three global interactive named Global1 ,Global2 and Global3 all having instance access.Now the user has executed one of the global interactive say Global1 , following the execution of Global1, i have to remove Global2 and Global3 from the instance access for that particular instance.Or after Global1 execution if the user clicks on the Global2 or Global3 , can he get a message box warning in the workspace saying that you cannot perform this action.
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Please does anybody have a solution to the aboce scenario .Any other kind of alternative solution will be also of great help.
Ritu

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Transfer value from global automatic activity in Aqualogic BPM Suite

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Global creation activity

I create and test a process in BPM studio 10g and deploy it to the BPM standalone 10g in the same machine. It is fine.
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I'd be the first to agree that you should not have to do this to get your Global Interactive and Global Creation activities to show up on Enterprise, but you might want to try stopping and restarting the Engine. This usually refreshes everything in my Applications folder. I usually have to do this the first time I deploy a project to Enterprise Standalone.
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