Triggering process flows (run it whenever source changes)

Hello everyone,
I have created several process flows which includes many mappings. Now i want to run the process flow automatically whenever there is new data inserted in the source tables of those mappings. Is there a way to do this in OWB. i am using OWB R2 and Oracle 10g. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You

Hi,
one way is to create (outside OWB) an update/insert/delete-trigger on the table and start the mapping in a begin-end-block of the trigger after an insert or update.
Look at the oracle library for triggers and you get it.
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER test_trigger
AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE OR DELETE
ON table_test
DECLARE
result_num number;
BEGIN
<call mapping or process flow here>
result_num :=WB_RT_API_EXEC.RUN_TASK(p_location_name
, p_task_type
, p_task_name
, p_custom_params
, p_system_params
, p_oem_friendly
, p_background);
<some code to analyze the result code>
<exception handler>
END;
Regards,
Detlef

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