Customizing BPM process using BPM Composer

Business needs to be agile!  Which means business has to respond to the customer needs very quickly. Technology should support business in achieving this agility.

In BPM it is possible to customize the business process by the business analysts. To customize an existing process it is not required to have the deep technical knowledge. Business can change the implementation of a  process using the BPM composer.

The approach is to make the project as a template by the developer and publish to MDS.

The business analyst can create an customized version of the process from this template project using BPM Composer

I am using the same process used in my previous blog for this example.

The first step is to convert the BPM project to template as follows

Create a MDS Database connection from JDev

Create an IDE connection using the above MDS connection

Identify the activities which can be customized by business people from the BPM Composer.

Here lets take ApproveRequest task as the customizable activity. Ensure the permissions given is "Must Implement"

Now the ApproveRequest task will have an identification as it is customizable

Save the changes and publish the project to MDS as shown below

Create a new folder under the location as shown below and click OK

This will publish the project as a template to MDS

Now logon to BPM Composer

Click on the "New Project" icon

Give appropriate name for the process and select the template as "ReservationProject"

Click on next and Finish

The new process will appear in the next screen. Click on the highlighted link to customize it

The activity which has to be implemented will be highlighted as below

On the right hand side menu, choose the Human Task section under Business Catalog.

Drag and drop the ApproveRequest Task to the highlighted activity

The various activity parameters can be changed as per the new business requirement

 Here I have changed the description of the activity and the Action values

Validate the project and Save

Now go to the project menu and select the deployment option

 Give the necessary info for deployment and deploy the customized version of processs