Problem with Expense Management tutorial

Question

In the tutorial, Activity 3, Designing a Screen flow, the tutorial states to add a Main Task to the Interactive Component Call.
While adding the main task...
4. In the Implementation Type list, select BPM Object Interactive Call. - This works fine.
5. In the Select BPM Object Variable list, select reportSf. - this variable is not available, the list is blank.
Has anyone else ran into this? What did you do to fix this?
Is this just my installation or has anyone else run into this sometime in the past?
THANK YOU!!

Answer 1

Hi,
I guess I see why it was written this way, but the tutorial takes the more difficult approach to argument mapping.
The tutorial wants you to use an existing screenflow. The problem is that the existing screenflow was built for an Interactive activity inside the process that has work item instances flowing both into and out of the activity. This screenflow in the tutorial has incoming arguments that the tutorial is having you use for a Global Creation activity (an activity where instances get created and that no incoming arguments). In real life, when you're building a screenflow for a Global Creation activity, you'd not create it with the incoming arguments that you're having to set in step 17 on page 38.
To get around this:
1) Click "Submit Report In" in the upper right corner of the dialog it has you open in step 16
2) Click the "+" in the upper right corner
3) Click in the first row of the "Submit Report's input arguments" column
4) Pick "reportSfArg" from the dropdown (ironically - this is the incoming argument variable coming into the screenflow of a Global Creation activity that should not have incoming argument variables)
5) Click in the first row of the "Value" column
6) You will not see any values in the dropdown, but manually type in the text "ExpenseReport()". This is the name of the constructor for the incoming argument variable's object that should not be there in the first place.
I guess I see why it was written this way, but I sure wish the easy way would have been used.
Dan