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1. If you use the right mouse button menu option New Activity in the Process window to create a new node, the property pages for the node appears. Select the name of the item type and activity in the Activities property page. If you create a node by dragging and dropping an activity from the navigator tree into the process window, then double-click on the node to display the property pages so you can further specify the details of the node.

2. Since an activity can be used more than once in any given process, the Label field lets you give a unique name to the instance of this particular activity in the process. By default the label name is the activity name, but if the activity is used more than once in the process, -N is appended to the activity name, where N represents the 'Nth' instance of the activity in use.

Attention: Most APIs pass the activity's label to the workflow engine and not the activity name. See: Workflow Engine APIs.

3. Indicate if the current node is a start or end activity in your process, by choosing 'START' or 'End', respectively. 'NORMAL' is the default if it is neither. You may have multiple START and END nodes in your process.

A Start activity is marked (Start) and has a small green arrow in its activity icon, and an End activity is marked (End) and has a red arrow in its activity icon.

4. For an END node, you must also select a value for the final process result if the overall process activity has a result type associated with it. The list of values for the final process result derive from the lookup type defined as the process activity's result type.

5. You can provide a comment to yourself about this node.

6. For notification activities, specify the performer of the activity, that is, the role to whom the notification is sent. You may either enter a role name or specify an item type attribute that dynamically determines a role at runtime. See: Roles.

Note: When you assign a notification to a multi-user role, the Workflow Engine keeps track of the individual from that role that actually responds to the notification. See: Respond API.

7. Choose Apply to save your changes.

8. If the node is a function activity and the function activity has activity attributes, you can assign values to those activity attributes by choosing the Attribute Values tab to display the Attribute Values property page.

9. If the node is a process activity, then a small subprocess overlay icon appears over the upper right corner of process activity icon. The subprocess overlay icon identifies the node as a subprocess within the process diagram.

10. You should turn on grid snap from the View menu to snap your activity icons to the grid when you complete your diagram. Grid snap is initially turned on by default until you change the setting, at which point the latest setting becomes your default.

See Also

• To Find an Object in the Navigator Tree

• To Add Nodes to a Workflow Process

• To Define Activity Attribute Values

• To Create and Edit a Transition

• To Display a Process Overview

• To Print a Process

• To Copy a Process Diagram to the Clipboard

• To Validate a Process Definition