Hiring tutorial: Create process variables

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Published on March 11, 2016

Hiring tutorial > Model the process

In this lesson, you create the process variables to implement the gateway logic.

The process uses private variables because these variables are used only by this process and possibly passed to linked processes. When you implement the process, you associate these variables with business objects that you will create.

When you create variables, follow these guidelines:

  • Create variable names that begin with a lowercase letter.

  • Capitalize the first letter of a variable type.

  • If the variable name is only one word, spell that word in all lowercase letters.

  • If the variable name consists of more than one word, capitalize the first letter of each subsequent word.

  • Remember that variable names are case sensitive.

This lesson uses the following concepts:

Concept

Description

variables

Data that provides the business context to a

running process. Using variables, the business process passes data from one step to another. Private, input, and output are kinds of variables.

private variables

Values that the current process or service requires.

input variables

Values that pass into the current process or service.

output variables

Values that are passed from a process to a parent process or service.


Procedure

  1. Click the Variables tab in the main canvas of the Standard HR Open New Position process.

  2. For a private variable, click its Add button and in the Details section that opens, type currentPosition for the name.

  3. In the same way, add the requisition private variable. As a placeholder for now, leave their types as String. You will update the types after you have created the appropriate business objects. Your private variables match the following image:

  4. Save your work.

  5. Click the Definition tab in the main canvas of the Standard HR Open New Position process to return to the model.

Summary

You added process variables to the Standard HR Open New Position process. In the next lesson, you conduct Playback Zero.

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