10.2.3

Edit

Work with Business Process

Business Process (BP) is a combination of connected Manual Tasks, Bot Tasks, and/or other BPs handled by a user-defined flow. The BP Designer allows you to control the flow of the Manual and Bot Tasks. A BP has one input Data file which is enriched and/or modified by each Task results.

Tasks in BP are executed successively or in parallel depending on the Composite Rules and their Conditions. A BP Task can utilize data generated by previously completed Tasks or data from the input file.

Prior to reading this material, see the Create a Manual Task and Copy a Task topics. When creating and editing a BP, some steps are similar to a regular Task creation.

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BP Flow

  1. Create Tasks and test them separately. You can create an Operation from Manual and Bot Tasks to re-use them in your BP.
  2. Create a BP and start designing and configuring it. Prepare an input Data file, add the previously created Tasks to your BP and connect them.
  3. Run the BP in a development environment. You can log in as a Worker, find and complete the Manual Tasks of the BP. See the WorkSpace user manual.
  4. Check the results and edit the BP and/or Task parameters if needed.
  5. Copy the BP with Data.
  6. Run the copied BP in a Production environment and monitor its execution.

You can optionally pause/resume or stop the BP execution. When the BP is no longer needed you can delete it.

If your BP is tested and you want to re-use it (create a copy or include in another BP as a sub-process), create an Operation from the BP.

Data Flow

A BP should have one input Data file which is enriched and/or modified by each Task results.

You can view and export data for each Task in the BP, this data contains input columns and columns added or modified by this Task. A BP Task can utilize data generated by previously completed Tasks or data from the input file.

Each completed BP has a file with Final Results which combines input Data file and all the Tasks results. To see the intermediate BP results, you can generate a BP Snapshot.

See the following topics: