Defining workstep presentation for Business Processes
You can change the look and feel of the presentation pages for Start or Activity worksteps in Business Processes. You can add multiple presentation types such as Portal, Mobile, GUI, Rollbase, and Tablet to a single activity workstep. This enables you to complete an activity from a browser, a Mobile device, a GUI for .NET application, a Rollbase application or a Tablet device.
To define the presentation format:
1. Click the Start or Activity workstep in the process template to display its properties in the Properties view.
2. From the General tab, click the Add button from the Presentation section to display the Add Presentation dialog box.
3. Select Portal from the Type drop-down list. Other presentation type options available are Mobile, GUI, Tablet, Rollbase and Other.
Note: You can add multiple presentation types such as Portal, Mobile, GUI, Rollbase and Tablet to a single activity workstep. This enables you to complete an activity from a browser, a Mobile device, a GUI for .NET application, a Rollbase application or a Tablet device.
4. Select the presentation format option from the Form Type drop-down list. The options are Auto-generated, Custom JSP, Flow, and Flow (private).
5. If required, modify the presentation name in the Name box. You cannot specify a name for the Auto-generated format.
Alternatively, you can map worksteps (with Custom JSP and Flow presentations) to CHARACTER dataslots to dynamically associate the workstep with a JSP file or a Web application respectively. You need to set the initial value of the CHARACTER dataslot to a Web application (*.BpmWebFlow) or a valid JSP file (existing in the <project_name>\jsp folder). This feature is not available for Web applications.
a. From the Form Type drop-down list, select the appropriate option. The available options are Custom JSP, Flow, and Flow (private). The Form Type drop-down is not available for Mobile, GUI, Tablet, or Other as the presentation types.
b. Click the ellipsis button beside the Name or URL text field, then select Use a Dataslot option to display the Add Dataslots dialog box. Select the CHARACTER dataslot to be mapped to the workstep presentation, then click OK to add the dataslot in the Name box.
6. Click OK, to return to the Properties view.
Note: You cannot add the same presentation type twice to one activity workstep. If you do, an error message appears stating that the Presentation Type already exists. Do you want to override?. Click OK to override the presentation type.
For more details regarding each of the presentation formats available for BPM processes, refer to Table 54.
Table 54. Presentation Format for Business Processes
