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About the Process Designer

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  • Last UpdatedJul 25, 2023
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The Process Designer provides the interface to model workflow processes. Workflows can be modeled, designed, and deployed from this window. It opens when the Process Designer control is executed from a web form in the web application.

The Process Designer is an AJAX based ASP.NET server control that can be embedded in any web based product, ASP Engine, or web page. It is a browser based application that requires no plug-in or IDE. It provides a comprehensive set of standard activities, which can be easily dragged and dropped on a design mosaic and linked to design processes.

The Process Designer user interface has the following parts:

  • Menu bar

  • Tool bar

  • Design Mosaic

  • Activities

  • Activity Properties

The following image shows the Process Designer window:

ProcessDesignerWindow

Menu bar

The following image shows the menu bar of the Process Designer window:

Note: To change the Menu in the Process Designer, edit the pdmenu.txt file under the Locales folder.

The menu bar has the following menus.

File

The File menu has the following options to perform various activities on the files in which workflow process designs are saved:

  • Save As EMF Image: Use this option to save the current process design as an image file in the Enhanced Windows Metafile (EMF) format. This is the ideal format for printing the process or to embed it in MS Office files.

  • Save As PNG Image: Use this option to save the current process design to a PNG image file.

  • Clear Diagram: Use this option to clear the current process design from the design area.

Edit

The Edit menu has the following options to perform various activities on the Workflow process design:

  • Undo: Use this option to undo the previous actions.

  • Redo: Use this option to redo the previous actions.

  • Delete: Use this option to delete the selected activity.

  • Copy: Use this option to copy the selected activity.

  • Paste: Use this option to paste the activity copied using the Copy command.

  • Full Screen: Use this option to switch between the full screen and normal display modes.

  • Activity Properties: Use this option to open the Activity Properties window to set the properties for the selected activity.

Publish

A workflow is deployed and activated only if it is published.

  • Publish: Use this option to publish the workflow design.

  • Validate Definition: Use this option to validate the workflow definition.

Tools

The Tools menu has the following options to export and import workflow definitions:

  • Import: Use this option to import process definition XML files, which were exported earlier, into the Process Designer.

  • Export: Use this option to export a workflow definition to an XML file. The exported XML definition can be manually edited or moved to another database.

  • Import from Visio: Use this option to import a workflow process model XML file created using IT Pearls BPMN Stencil for Visio.

Settings

The Settings menu has the following options to configure different process level settings for other AVEVA Work Tasks Controls:

  • Work Item Fields: Use this option to add and configure work item fields.

  • Alternate Actors: Use this option to specify alternate actors to the actual assigned actors.

  • BAM Configuration: Use this option to setup critical performance measurement criteria for a workflow.

  • Work Item List Layout: Use this option to display all the work item fields that have been added.

Tool bar

The tool bar is located just below the menu bar at the top of the Process Designer window. It has the following tools:

Undo

The Undo tool can be used to undo the previous actions that were performed in the Process Designer.

Redo

The Redo tool can be used to repeat the previous actions that were performed in the Process Designer.

Delete

The Delete tool can be used to delete an activity from the workflow.

Copy

The Copy tool can be used to copy an activity in a workflow to paste it elsewhere.

Paste

The Paste tool can be used to paste a cut or copied activity in the workflow.

Activities Toolbox

The Activities Toolbox tool can be used to show or hide the Activities Toolbox (AVEVA Work Tasks activities), which has the list of activities.

Activity Properties

The Activity Properties tool can be used to show or hide the properties area for the selected activity.

Edit Text

The Edit Text tool can be used to edit the text corresponding to the selected element on the design mosaic. It could be an activity or a link.

Show Grid

The Show Grid tool can be used to show or hide the grid pattern on the design mosaic.

Search

The Search tool can be used to search for a specific value in the workflow. You can enter the value to be searched in the field and click the magnifying glass icon next to it to start the search.

Zoom

The Zoom tool can be used to zoom in or out on the workflow design in the design mosaic. You can do this by specifying the percentage of zoom using the Zoom Level drop-down in the window that opens. You can also use this image to navigate through the process diagram.

See Also: Using the Process Map Image for Navigation

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Link

The Link tool can be used to create a new link between two activities. You can do this by specifying the two activities to be linked in the window that  is displayed.

Wizards

The Wizards tool wizards allow you to create and define workflows in an easy way.

Help

The Help tool can be used to access help content for the Process Designer and its elements.

Activities

You can use the AVEVA Work Tasks activities area to access the different activities that can be used to design the workflow process in the Process Designer. There are several activities organized under different groups, which you can access from the drop-down list. These correspond to the standard workflow activities available with AVEVA Work Tasks.

Human Activities

When this option is selected from the drop-down list, it displays all the activities in this group. They can be used to enable human-workflow interaction. These activities include Approval, Check-List, Choice, Invoke Form, Resource Set, Information, Resource Set, Task, and Work.

HumanActivities

Integration Activities

This option displays the activities that can be used to integrate workflows with external applications, scripts and databases. Activities include Create-Open-Office-Document, InvokeWebService, Script, File Operations, Change Workflow Status, and XML Action.

IntegrationActivities

Engine Activities

This option displays the workflow-engine related activities. These include BlockingOutput, Database Activity, Decision, ForEach-Loop, For-Loop, Logger, Next-Loop, Resource Variable, Rule, Set Workflow output variable, Synchronize, Update Parent Variables, Update Variable, Workflow, and Xml Navigator.

Scheduler Activities

This option displays the activities that can be used to schedule the execution of other workflow activities. These include Control Custom Timer, Set Custom Timer, Scheduler, and Time Trigger.

Communication

This option displays the activities that can be used to enable communication from the workflows. These activities include Email, Notification, Send SMS, Wait for Email, and Wait for SMS.

BPMN Elements

This option displays the different BPMN elements available in AVEVA Work Tasks. These activities include Gateway Placeholder, Group Box, Intermediate Event Placeholder, Lane, Placeholder, and Pool.

List Activities

This option displays the activities that can be used to change the scope of the Xml List xml variable during workflow execution. These activities include List Navigator and Wait For Event.

Security

This option displays the activities that can be used for security. These include Cancel Approval Workflow and Security Instruction Handler.

Report Activities

You use the Report Generator activity to run a report template and save the report in the Reports list.

ArchestrA Events

Use the ArchestrA Wait for Event activity to wait for a number of events from ArchestrA Event Services platform for a particular time period, and then consume the events in a defined workflow. You can set the number of events and the time period in the properties of that activity. It can store the event context details in the specified XML variables.

Design Mosaic

 

You can create and edit workflows in the Design Mosaic. Initially, it displays only the icon for the Start activity. You can click and drop different activities from the list of activities to the Design Mosaic. This will display the icons corresponding to the selected activities, on the Design Mosaic. These activity icons can be lined to one another.

A splitter has been provided on the left side of the Design Mosaic. You can click this splitter to hide the Activities pane and enlarge the Design Mosaic in that direction. The following image shows the Process Designer with the splitter clicked to enlarge the design area:

 

 

Activity Properties

The Activity Properties pane at the right of the screen shows the property fields corresponding to the selected Activity. The following image shows the Activity Properties for the Logger activity:

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