Activity 1: Initial Steps

This activity shows how to begin work on a project and a process. It also helps familiarize you with Oracle BPM Studio. Pay special attention to the Project Navigator and the Process Editor.

To ensure you do not lose any work, save the project after completing each task. To save all project components in one step, click File > Save All ().

1. Creating a Project
   After evaluating the business need, the first step in modeling a business process is to create a new project. A project contains all of the resources necessary to model and publish your business process.
2. Creating a Process
   A project can have one or more processes. In this task, you will create the Expense Report process of the ExpenseManagement project.
3. Creating a Role
   Roles you create in Studio are known as abstract roles, because they may be renamed or consolidated when the process is actually deployed in a production environment. In Studio, roles can be added to the project in the Project Navigator or directly in the process editor design window.
4. Creating a Role from the Process Editor
   This task shows you how to create a role in the project's organization, from the Design view of the Process Editor.
5. Adding a Global Creation Activity
   To use a process, there has to be a way of creating a process instance that flows through it. One way to do this is with a global creation activity.
6. Adding Participants
   Interactive activities require participants to execute them. Participants are the people who log into the system and perform activities.
7. 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.
8. Activity 1 Summary
   Congratulations! You have completed the first activity of the tutorial, which goes all the way from creating the project to running a process.