Global Interactive Scenario

Hi
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.
But i dont have an idea as in how to implement this.
Please does anybody have a solution to the aboce scenario .Any other kind of alternative solution will be also of great help.
Ritu

If you are not going to change instance data in those activities you can define them as read only (right botton in the activity--> main task-->properties-->ReadOnly and then when you excute them the engine does not block the instance and other activities, for example an interactive can interact with that instance. A usual case is you define a global activity with instance access to see the instance but you want that other user at the same time can execute an interactive activity.
HTH

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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.
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Yasmin,
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Thansk!

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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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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...
Thanks in advance.
Atte.-
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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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I am conducting an evaluation of Workflow products for use within our
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Ties the application to WLPI api directly rather than the a generic JMS
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Hi Tim,
An additional response from within our engineering organization:
In BPM, we have an action, assign task to role that will allow any user
within
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HTH
Regards, David
"Tim Lee" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Hi,
I am conducting an evaluation of Workflow products for use within our
company, one of which is Bea Process Integrator.
I would like to know in what ways WLPI allows for interaction with users
that either must handle manual tasks or provide input to a workflow's
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a trouble ticketing system. The following outlines a simplified processfor
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2. If the user specified a destination group for the trouble ticket, then
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3. If not, wait for the trouble ticket to be allocated to a group.
4. When the ticket has been allocated to a group, transfer ticket to that
group for resolution.
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Step 1.
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Sevlet. The servlet extracts the field information and forms a XML request
message which it sends to the workflow engine via JMS ( to
com.bea.wlpi.EventQueue ).
Eg.
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<action name="CreateNewTT">
<trouble-ticket>
<group>IPNOperators</group>
</trouble-ticket>
</action>
Step 2.
The 'Create and Assign TT' workflow is specified to be started when an
<action name="CreateNewTT">. XML document is received by the workflow
engine. If the group has been specified
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group' task is activated.
In the WLPI world how would the 'place TT in group' task be implemented?
A member of this group / role, must receive notification of the newtrouble
ticket along with the trouble ticket information. I see a few options :
1. Simply assign the task to a user in role (which represents the group).
This will then arrive in their Worklist GUI.
Problems :
- I can't see how the worklist gui would display the trouble ticket
information to the operator.
- I would rather operators receive this notification in the same
web-based GUI they use for creating tickets
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it, reassign it to another group, solve it. Etc. etc. how is this modelled
within the Worklist GUI ?
2. The web-based-GUI listens to a trouble ticketing system specific JMS
queue. The task simply sends an XML message with either an ID which canbe
used by the application to extract the ticket information from a DB, orwith
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Problems :
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in this scenario? As there will probably only be one JMS queue for all
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model (if it has one???).
3. Use the WLPI API directly to receive notification of the event,
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Ties the application to WLPI api directly rather than the a generic JMS
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pending trouble tickets.
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same options as Step 2.
I hope this example makes sense !
Are there any design patterns for this style of interaction with workflows
in general?
Is there a specific style of solution that Bea recommends and is it
documented within any whitepapers or case studies?
Does anybody have any experience of implementing these types of system in
WLPI or other workflow products?
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