Guided Procedures Role Introduction

Hello,
We are currently working on EP6.
I have noticed that at EP7 there is new role called "Guided Procedures".
Can someone please review this role, explain what does it used for, which features of EP6 it includes inside it (Collaboration, UWL...?) and which new features it brings?
Thank you in advance,
Roy

Hi,
Guided procedures (or GP) is part of Composite application framework (or CAF) and is new with NW04s. My understanding is that GP is a way to model process and link different steps of the process to different applications (of many different types), that's probably oversimplifying it.
There is a lot of good information from SAP on this, for example
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/5fd14dd1-0c01-0010-ccb6-bca76d3b4d3c
/thread/92688 [original link is broken]
Dagfinn

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