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Performing Administration in Process Spaces
This chapter discusses what you need to know as an administrator of Process Spaces. This chapter contains these topics:
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Section 13.1, Understanding Roles and Permissions in Process Spaces
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Section 13.2, Understanding Task Flows in Process Spaces
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Section 13.3, Editing Pages in Process Spaces
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Section 13.4, Configuring a Group Space in Process Spaces
13.1 Understanding Roles and Permissions in Process Spaces
Both Oracle WebCenter and Oracle Business Process Management Process Spaces use an identity store, each with a different set of application roles. Process Spaces group
spaces come with default WebCenter roles—for example: moderator, participant viewer, and public user. However, an administrator can create more roles and provide
appropriate permissions to them.
For more information about creating roles and providing permissions, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle WebCenter Spaces.
13.2 Understanding Task Flows in
Process Spaces
Task flows in Process Spaces display the same information available in Process Workspace. These are reusable components that have been consumed in Oracle
WebCenter so they can be used in Process Spaces.
For more information about the various task flows and their parameters, see Appendix A, Creating Custom ADF Applications with Oracle Business Process
Management Workspace Task Flows.
13.3 Editing Pages in Process Spaces
To use Process Spaces specific group spaces and templates, use the BPM Process Spaces Catalog. The BPM Process Spaces Catalog includes all the resources from the
default group space catalog.
If you have upgraded from an earlier release and you want to edit the existing Process Spaces group space, you can either change the settings to use BPM Process Spaces
Catalog for the particular group space or change the settings globally so that all group spaces in the application use the BPM Process Spaces Catalog.
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For information about how to use a resource catalog, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle WebCenter Spaces.
BPM Process Spaces Catalog includes the following folders:
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Process Work Space Resources
– Available processes: All available processes that a logged-in user can
instantiate
– Charts: Charts that show various statistics
– Process instance list: All process instances a user can access
– Task list: List of tasks that user has to act upon
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Process Instance Space Resources
– Audit trail: Audit trail of a given instance in tabular and graphical forms
– Process calendar: Calendar that shows various important dates for a given
process instance. Also capable of showing dates for all process instances of a user in context.
– Stake holders: List of stake holders for a given instance.
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Process Modeling Space Resources
– Process catalog: Process catalog viewer that shows all published processes.
While there are no restrictions about using these task flows, they are grouped based on the group spaces to which they belong. However when a custom group space is
created, you can mix and match the task flow.
For task flows to function correctly, you must pass the appropriate parameters to them. For configuring task flow parameters, see the Oracle WebCenter documentation
For information about each task flow, see Appendix A, Creating Custom ADF
Applications with Oracle Business Process Management Workspace Task Flows. You edit a page just as you would any other group space page. For more information,
see Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle WebCenter Spaces. Each group space has a settings page for administering the group space. Process
Workspace settings are configured to enable self-subscription for users. You can change these settings as needed. The rest of the default group space settings are similar
to any other group space.
13.4 Configuring a Group Space in Process Spaces
For information about configuring a group space, see Section 13.3, Editing Pages in
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Creating Custom ADF Applications with Oracle Business Process Management
Workspace Task Flows
Different features available in Process Workspace are exposed as standalone reusable components, called task flows. You can embed task flows in any Oracle Application
Development Framework ADF application. These standalone task flows provide many parameters that enable you to build customized applications.
All the task flows are bundled in an ADF library that you can include in the application in which you are embedding.
This appendix provides basic information about the features in each task flow. Later, in Section A.5, Samples: Customizing ADF Applications with Oracle Business Process
Management Workspace Task Flows, a sample task flow using TaskListTaskFlow
shows detailed steps for embedding the task flow in the application as well as customizing, deploying, and running it.
For descriptions of the various task flows, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Modeling and Implementation Guide for Oracle Business Process Management.
This appendix covers the following topics:
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Section A.1, User-Related Task Flows
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Section A.2, Process Task Flows
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Section A.3, Process Analytics Task Flows
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Section A.4, .JAR files for the Task Flows
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Section A.5, Samples: Customizing ADF Applications with Oracle Business Process Management Workspace Task Flows
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Section A.6, Sample: Wf_client_config.xml File
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Section A.7, Sample: Bean with the Method Returning the WorkflowServicesClientConfigurationType Object
A.1 User-Related Task Flows
This section contains these topics:
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Section A.1.1, Task List Task Flow
Note: This appendix assumes that you are familiar with both Oracle
Application Development Framework and security.
