How to Assign an Existing Human Task to a User Task

14-8 Modeling and Implementation Guide for Oracle Business Process Management

14.4 Creating a Human Task Using the SOA Human Task Editor

You can create and edit complex Human Tasks using the SOA Human Task editor. For more information on how to create Human Tasks using Oracle SOA Suite, see chapter Designing Human Tasks in Oracle Fusion Middleware Developers Guide for Oracle SOA Suite.

14.4.1 How to Specify an e-mail Address for the Recipient of a Notification

When using the SOA Human Task editor in a BPM Suite installation, you can specify an e-mail address for the recipient of a Notification. To specify an e-mail address for the recipient of a notification: 1. Open the Human Task editor. 2. Click the Notification tab. 3. Double-click the Recipient list. The Recipient list is an editable list, when you double click it, it becomes a text field.

4. Enter the recipient’s e-mail address.

Optionally you can use the buttons next to the Recipient text field to look up the e-mail address in an application server or to specify the e-mail address using XPath.

14.5 Editing a Human Task from Oracle BPM Studio

You can edit a human task using Oracle BPM Simplified editor or the SOA Human Task editor. Generally you use the SOA Human Task editor for complex human tasks.

14.5.1 How to Edit a Human Task Using the Oracle BPM Simplified Editor

To edit a Human Task using the Oracle BPM Simplified Editor: 1. Open the BPMN process that contains the user task implemented with a Human Task. 2. Right-click the user task.

3. Select Properties.

The user task properties dialog box appears.

4. Click the Implementation Tab.

5. Make changes to the properties in the Human Task Attributes and Advanced

sections. Note: When sending a notification to a recipient specified using an e-mail address, the notification service uses the user context of an assignee to obtain the task information to include in the notification. Using Human Tasks 14-9

14.5.2 How to Edit a Human Task Using the SOA Human Task Editor

To edit a Human Task using the SOA Human Task Editor: 1. Open the BPMN process that contains the user task implemented with a Human Task. 2. Right-click the user task.

3. Select Open Human Task.

The SOA Human Task editor appears. 4. Make changes to the Human Task.

14.6 Using Human Task Patterns in Oracle BPM

Human task patterns allow you to use a predefined flow to create the Human Task. These predefined patterns contain standard process flows that are common to all business processes. Oracle BPM supports the following Human Tasks patterns: ■ Complex ■ FYI ■ Group ■ Initiator ■ Management ■ User You can add a Human Tasks that uses patterns by selecting the specific user task in the Interactive Activities section in the Component Palette, or you can add a generic user task and when you create the Human Task select the pattern you want to use. For more information about Human Task patterns, see Chapter 26, Using Approval Management .