Workflow
DEFINITION:-
Workflow capabilities enable you to efficiently automate the flow of information throughout your enterprise—crossing both application and functional boundaries.
Components of Workflow
Rules: Rules are your company's business practices captured in software. Rules determine what activities are required to process your business data
Roles: Roles describe how people fit into the workflow. A role is a class of users who perform the same type of work
Routings: Routings connect the activities in the workflow. They are the system's means of moving information from one place to another, from one step to the next
Eight Steps of Developing Workflows
ü Design Workflow Application
ü Build the underlying Application
ü Create Workflow maps
ü Define Roles and Users
ü Create Worklist Records
ü Define Workflow Objects
ü Define Event Triggers
ü Test
Route controls identify the aspects of a situation on which you want to base routing decisions, and they enable you to associate values with role users.
Approval processes
Approval processes are a very common form of business process, and you can define approval rules on an Approval Rule Set map.
· Virtual Approver automatically tracks the approval process. As users complete transactions that require approvals, Virtual Approver determines the appropriate approver and sends a workflow routing. As each approver completes the approval, Virtual Approver determines whether additional approvals are needed and, if necessary, sends additional workflow routings.
