Hiring tutorial: Add activities and events

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Published on March 11, 2016

Hiring tutorial > Model the process

In this lesson, you add activities and events to the lanes in the Standard HR Open New Position process to establish the correct process flow.

When you add activities and events, follow these guidelines:

  • Ensure that activities represent logical units of work that are assigned to a participant of a process.

  • Create multiple concurrent workflow steps that are assigned to one responsible role into one activity or task.

  • Use verb-noun statements to label activities, such as “Submit position request”.

  • Apply a top-down, left-to-right flow to your process so that it is easier to read.

This lesson uses the following concepts:

Concept

Description

event

Controls flow objects for a process model. An event is something that occurs during a process.

start event

Triggers the initiation of the process through

a manual or automatic input. There are four types of start events:

none, message, ECM content, and document. In a process, a none start event is created automatically and only one instance is allowed in the model.

To start a process when an external signal is received, add a message start event to the process.

end event

Occurs in a process when a final decision from

all activities or a partial set of activities is reached. There are four types of end events: none, message, error, and terminate. You can have multiple standard end events.

activity

A single work task that a participant, whether

the participant is a person or a system, accomplishes from beginning

to end during a process. There are many types of activities: For example, user task, system task, script, and decision task.

user task

An activity is implemented as a user task when

a user or human starts or completes the activity. For example, the Submit position request activity is a user task.

system task

An activity is implemented as a system task

when an automated system or service completes an activity. For example, the Notify hiring manager activity is a system task.

Concept

Description

script task

An activity that uses JavaScript to access and manipulate data.

decision task

An activity with a decision or condition in

a business rule to determine which process implementation is started.

Procedure

  1. Make sure that the Standard HR Open New Position process is open and the Definition tab is selected.

  2. An Inline User Task is created when you create the process. Select this task and delete it.

  3. Click the Team lane and, in the Properties tab, change the name to Hiring Manager.

  4. Set the Color property to Green.

  5. Drag a User Task activity from the palette into the Hiring Manager lane. Double click the activity and type Submit position request.

  6. Change the color of the activity to Blue and click Edit under Documentation to add a description of the activity.

  7. Add the remaining lanes and activities using the information in the following table:

    Lane

    Activities and color

    Events

    Name: Hiring Manager Color: Green

    Name: Submit position request Type: User Task

    Color: Blue

    Start

    Name: General Manager Type: User Task

    Color: Blue

    Name: Review new position request Color: Purple

    Name: Human Resources Type: User Task

    Color: Default

    Name: Find position candidates Type: User Task

    Color: Yellow

    Name: System Color: Purple

    Name: Notify hiring manager Type: User Task

    Color: Orange

    End

    Note: While you should add a description to each element in your process app to help users understand it, the tutorial will skip adding them for brevity.

  8. Select the Notify hiring manager activity and then in the properties, click Implementation. For the activity type, select Script.

  9. Move the End event to the right of the Notify hiring manager activity. Your diagram matches the following image:

  10. Save your work.

Summary

You added activities and events to the Standard HR Open New Position process. In the next lesson, you model teams.

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