Managing attributes

An attribute is a label that you can use to tag or mark your process. Attributes are generally used by the Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge and Business Process Modeler. For your convenience, Business Process Portal provides the following predefined attributes. The following table provides more information about these predefined attributes.

Table 29. Predefined attributes
Attribute	Description
Objective	The objective of the process. For example, to automate the order processing.
Goal	The goal of the process. For example, to reduce the order processing cost by 10%.
Organizational Unit	The scope of the process within the organization. For example, Sales and Distribution.
Influencers	The entities affected by the process. For example, Sales Staff, Customers, Partners, and Dealers.
Process Type	The scope of the process type. The default values are BusinessProcess, MonitoringProcess, and SystemProcess.
Risks	The risks involved. For example, Time and money for training.
Rewards	The benefits of the process. For example, High customer satisfaction, High retention, Increased revenue.
Executable	Whether the process is executable or not. For example, Yes.

Business Process Portal enables you to manage attributes by displaying information about existing attributes, adding new attributes, removing attributes, updating existing attributes.

You can manage attributes from the Administration module of Business Process Portal by using the Attribute List page as illustrated in Displaying information about an attribute. You can perform the following tasks from this page: