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Lets shortly explain those basic items below.
Start Item
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This is the starting point of a BPMN workflow and defines how the workflow will be started. This can be done manually or triggered by an event for example. If nothing is defined, it is always considered to be started manually.
User Task
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The user task is the part of a workflow in case manual input from a user is required. For example to review some data and approve it. This input is typically requested using a form showing one or more form fields to the user he then can fill out.
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Assignee is a single username. If defined, the user task will be automatically assigned to the user with this username when created.
The Candidate Users field define the users allowed to pick and claim this task. They will see the task instance of example in the TODO filter which can be seen as a “task pool”. Same is true if user is member in one of the groups mentioned in the Candidate Groups field. Multiple entries in these fields must be separated by comma.
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Service Task
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If a task in the BPMN workflow must be executed in by an automated way by a service (“machine”), it must be marked as a service task. Such automated steps could be for example sending an email, doing a data conversion, connecting to external systems and a lot moreor much more complex steps. Here full automation is possible.
By default, such a service task is linked to a data pipeline which defines all the these “instructions” to the machines “machines” (services) to be executed in an automated way as soon as the workflow arrives at this service task.
You can link the a service task to the a data pipeline by selecting clicking the service task and then in the PIPELINE tab select a an already existing data pipeline you would like to execute when this service task is executedstarts. Or you create a new pipeline and link this one.
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it there.
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Decision Gateway
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In case the flow direction inside a BPMN workflow must change depending on a condition, a decision gateway or just gateway in short can be used. For example if the user has approved a request in the form, this approval information can be used to decide to follow the approval path.
End Item
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The end item (also known as end state) defines when the process must be finished. Typically a BPMN workflow must always have exactly one such end state. There are some rarely cases which could differ from that.
How to start a workflow in PIPEFORCE?
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