Submitting a Document to a Business Process

With the Oracle BPM Add-in, you can submit a document directly to a business process. When you do so, you create a new Work Item that has the document attached to it.
The following steps assume you have installed and configured the Oracle BPM Add-in for Microsoft Office 2007.

To submit a Microsoft Office document to a Business Process:

  1. From the Microsoft Office application, with the document open, select the Business Processes tab and click Submit to Business Process. If you did not select the Always use this process option, the Select Process dialog box appears. Otherwise, the Attachment Information dialog box appears, and you can proceed to step 3.
  2. Select the business process you want to submit the document to, and click Next. The Attachment Information dialog box appears.
  3. In the appropriate text fields, you can enter a description and remarks about the document. Both of these are optional.
  4. Click Accept.
    Note: If this is a new, unsaved document, the Oracle BPM Add-in will open the Save As dialog box so that you can save it. You cannot submit a document that has not been saved.
    Note: If it is an existing document that has unsaved changes, the Add-in will save it before creating the new instance.
    If the work item was created, the Confirmation dialog box appears.