Oracle Applications 11i: Workflow 2.6

Course Outline

Oracle Workflow 2.5: An Introduction

• Business requirements fulfilled by Oracle Workflow
• Workflow architecture
• Components of Oracle Workflow
• Features of a typical Workflow process
• Workflow Builder and Workflow Engine
• Activities performed by the Workflow Engine in a Workflow process definition
• Process constructs supported by the Workflow Engine
• Workflow Definitions Loader
• Features of Workflow Monitor
• Functions performed by the Workflow Notification System
• Features of e-mail notifications in Oracle Workflow and Workflow Notification Mailer

• Steps used to plan a Workflow process
• Use of Quick Start Wizard to create a new process
• Bottom-up and top-down approach for creating a process
• Guidelines for using different activities in a process
• Use of Workflow Builder Navigator to create new item type, message, look up type, document and URL attributes
• Identify the respond attribute properties in an e-mail notification
• Selector/Callback function parameters
• Writing PL/SQL procedure by using the standard API

• Methods that can be used to display the process window
• Methods used to create a process and customize a node
• Characteristics of Workflow Builder display modes
• Transition between two nodes and self-looping transitions
• Standard activities and their uses
• Standard lookup types with their lookup codes
• Features of top-down design in Oracle Workflow
• Validations that are performed when you use the Verify command
• Specifying activity attribute values
• Guidelines for deleting item attributes and saving process definitions

• Use of Navigator Control Properties window to create process activity, function activity and its attributes, create notifications, create voting activities and define timeout for a notification
• Define dynamic priority attribute by using the Workflow Builder Navigator
• Standard API with their features
• Guidelines for assigning a cost to a function activity
• Execution modes of a function activity
• Features of a forced synchronous process
• Features of the Master/Detail relationship
• Methods used to handle a looping activity
• Guidelines for handling errors
• Features of Block activity and Complete Activity functions

• Respond to a notification
• Search for a specific set of notifications
• Reassign notifications
• Set e-mail notification preference and respond to an e-mail notification
• Steps to view a summary of e-mail notifications
• Functions of automatic notification processing
• Methods used to display the rules for automatic notification processing
• Automatic notification processing
• Attaching PL/SQL documents
• Functions of document management integration
• Standard document management operations and their application.
• Steps to access a DM document sent by a notification
• Steps to respond to a notification with a DM document

• Oracle Workflow terms associated with the Workflow Directory Services
• Workflow directory service views
• Features of the WF_ROLES view
• Features of Oracle Workflow local tables
• Mappings of Oracle Workflow Directory Service views to Oracle Applications
• Overriding the global user preferences
• Features of ad hoc users and roles

• Functions of the Workflow Engine
• Steps involved in initiating a workflow process from an application
• Activities performed by the Workflow Engine upon starting a process
• Categories of Oracle Workflow APIs and their functions
• Workflow Engine APIs and their functions
• Workflow Purge APIs and their functions.
• Actions that can be performed by using the Workflow notification and preference API
• Features of the background engine
• Background engine parameters and their definitions
• Features of deferred processing in Oracle Workflow and timed-out notification activities
• Features of advanced queues processing
• Steps involved in workflow processing with advanced queue integration

• Administration buttons of the Workflow Monitor and their behaviors
• Workflow Monitor APIs and their functions
• Steps for a workflow-enabled application to control access to the Workflow Monitor
• Connect directly to the Find Processes Web page of the Workflow Monitor
• Query for a list of workflow processes by specifying search criteria
• Displaying the Notifications List for a process
• Components of the Notifications List Web page and their functions.
• Filtering specific activities in the Activities List window
• Columns of the Activities List Web page and their contents

• Steps for setting up Oracle Workflow Standalone
• Set up global user preferences
• Implement the Oracle Workflow Directory Services
• Set up a background Workflow Engine
• Create a new Document Management node by using the Document Nodes Web page
• Parameters of the wfmail.cfg configuration file
• Match the commands to start the Notification Mailer with their results
• Steps to customize the Workflow Web page logo
• Features of custom icons and Access Protection in Oracle Workflow
• Modifying current access level in the Workflow Builder
• Features of Oracle Workflow customization levels
• Implementing Workflow access protection features
• Workflow Definitions Loader
• Workflow demonstration processes and Workflow features
• Maintenance operations with Workflow administration scripts
• Workflow server activity, item, local, notification and routing tables and their contents

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