Running the Process as an Employee

You cannot yet input data into the process, but you can now run it to see how the Expense Report instance flows through the happy path.

To run the ExpenseReport process:

  1. Click the Start Engine icon (Run icon 
				) to start Studio's built-in process execution engine. The Start Engine dialog box appears.
  2. Verify that both the Delete Process Instances and Delete Log Files options are selected, and click OK.
  3. Once the engine has started, and the Start Engine icon has changed to a Stop Engine icon, click the Launch WorkSpace (Launch WorkSpace icon 
				) button.
  4. In the WorkSpace login page, log in as Peter Jones. The WorkSpace main page appears for user Peter Jones.
  5. In the WorkSpace Applications panel, click Create Expense Report. An ExpenseReport instance is created. The instance will go to the Check Company Policy automatic activity, and then on to the Review Report interactive activity, where it will wait for the supervisor to perform the activity.
  6. To see the instance you have created, click Show Filters in the Work Items panel. The Filter by pane of the Work Items panel opens.
  7. In the Processes pane, select Expense Report from the Available Processes list, and click the right arrow () to move it to the Selected Processes list.
  8. Set the Assigned to drop-down list to Anyone, at any Role, and click Apply Filter. The Work Items panel shows the instance you created in step 6. Note that it shows the Activity as Review Report, while the Status is blank. In other words, the Expense Report instance is now waiting for the Supervisor to perform the Review Report activity.
  9. Log out of WorkSpace by clicking Logout in the upper right of the page. In the next task, you log in again, so do not exit the browser.