Running the Process

Although our process at this point is still limited in what it can do, you can nevertheless run it to get an early sense of the design and simulation cycle.

1. Before running the process, it is a good habit to save your project, so click File > Save All (). If Save All is not enabled, it means all the files of your project are already saved, and you can skip this step.
2. To run the process, click the Start Engine icon () to start Studio's built-in process execution engine. The Start Engine dialog box appears.
3. Check both the Delete Process Instances and Delete Log Files options, and click OK. The Progress Information box will appear during the startup of the process engine, which takes some time to complete. Once the engine has started, the box will close and the Stop button () replaces the Run button.
4. Click the Launch WorkSpace () button. The AquaLogic BPM WorkSpace login page will appear in your default Web browser.
5. Log in as Peter Jones. The WorkSpace main page will appear for user Peter Jones. Note that in the Applications panel there is one entry called Create Expense Report. This appears here because of the global creation activity we added to the Employee role previously, and because Peter Jones has the Employee role. If you click on this entry, you will create an ExpenseReport instance.
6. Click on Create Expense Report in the WorkSpace Applications panel. An ExpenseReport instance is created. Since our process contains no activities, the instance goes directly to the End activity and it looks like nothing has happened.
7. To see the instance you have created, click the Open Search button () in the WorkList panel. The Search pane of the WorkList panel opens.
8. Expand the Show Instances section by clicking on the Show icon (). The Show Instances section expands.
9. Check the Completed option in the status line, and click Search. The WorkList panel will show the instance you created in step 6. Note it shows the Activity as End, and the Status as Completed ().
10. You can create more instances by clicking on Create Expense Report as in step 6. The instances appear automatically in the WorkList panel.
11. We are done as Peter Jones for now, so log out of WorkSpace by clicking Logout in the upper right of the page. The logout page will appear.
12. We now log in as Paul Smith, the supervisor, to see his view of things. Click Re-Login and then in the login page, log in as Paul Smith. The WorkSpace session for Paul Smith appears. Note that here, in the Applications panel, Create Expense Report is absent. This is because Paul has the role of Supervisor, and there is no global activity in that swim lane. In fact there is no activity at all in the Supervisor swim lane, so Paul can't do anything at this point.
13. Log out of WorkSpace, close the browser window or tab where WorkSpace is, and go back to Studio.
14. Stop Studio's process execution engine by clicking the Stop button (). The Run button will replace the Stop button.

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