Subprocesses in Context Using Subprocesses to Organize Your Process

Modeling Business Processes with Oracle BPM 6-37 For more information on using measurement marks and the Process Analytics database, see Using Process Analytics in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Modeling and Implementation Guide for Oracle Business Process Management. A measurement mark stores the following data into the Process Analytics databases: ■ The value of the process default measures ■ The value of the measure business indicators associated to that measurement mark ■ The value of the dimensions defined in the process You can use one measurement mark to measure multiple business indicators. When storing the value of a measure business indicator, the BPMN Service Engine also stores the value of the dimensions you defined in your process. Later on, when you build the dashboards to monitor your process, you can use these dimensions to group the values into different categories. For example, in the Sales Quote process you might want to view the total amount of quotes approved by region. The types of measurement marks you can define are: ■ Single Measurement ■ Interval Start ■ Interval Stop

6.11.1 How to Add a Measurement Mark to a Process

You can add measurement marks to your business processes by dragging the from the component palette to the process editor canvas. To add a single measurement mark to a process: 1. Open the BPMN process.

2. In the Component Palette, expand the Artifacts section and select from following:

■ Start measurement mark ■ End measurement mark ■ Single measurement mark Snapshot 3. Place the measurement mark near the sequence flow where you want to measure a business indicator. When the sequence flow turns blue, drop the measurement mark.

4. Right-click the measurement mark and select Properties.

5. In the Name text-field, enter a name to identify the measurement mark.

6. In the Business Indicators section, select a business indicator from the list of available business indicators and move it to the Selected list using the arrows between the two lists. Note: You can measure multiple business indicators in the same measurement mark. 6-38 Modeling and Implementation Guide for Oracle Business Process Management

7. Click OK.

6.12 Using Guided Business Processes to Set Project Milestones

This section describes how to you Guided Business Processes in Business Process Composer.

6.12.1 Introduction to Guided Business Processes

Guided Business Processes provide a guided visual representation of a process flow, improving the user experience by providing process participants with an encapsulated hierarchical view of the business process. Guided Business Processes enable process designers to direct process participants to complete a business process through a set of guided steps associated with the process. By following the steps outlined in a Guided Business Process, process participants require less training to complete a business process, and the results of the process are more predictable.

6.12.1.1 Introduction to Activity Guides and Milestones

A Guided Business Process is modeled as an activity guide that is based on a business process. The Activity Guide includes a set of Milestones. A milestone is a contained set of tasks that the process participant has to complete. A milestone is complete when the user successfully runs a specific set of tasks in the milestone. Each milestone is a specific set of human workflow tasks. Each human workflow task is itself a task flow that may require the collaboration of multiple participants in various roles. Depending on the nature of the task flows, a participant may save an unfinished task flow and resume it at a later time.

6.12.2 Working with Guided Business Processes

Using Business Process Composer, you can configure Guided Business Processes and add milestones to them. To configure the activity guide for a project: 1. In the Project Navigator, expand the project where you want to configure the activity guide.

2. Right-click Activity Guide, then select Configure.

3. Enter a title for the Activity Guide.

4. Configure the following optional properties:

■ Display Mode : Determines how milestones and tasks within the guided business process display links. If the milestone and tasks use another configuration then the guided business process configuration is ignored. Possible values are: Note: If you do not select a business indicator, then this measurement mark only stores the value of the default business indicators. If you want to add a business indicator without leaving the Measurement Mark Properties dialog, then you can click the New button under the Selected list.