Oracle Designer Tutorial |
Processes play a critical role in the way a business works. Modeling a process enables you to both understand and improve existing processes, and also to design new processes.
With Oracle Designer, you model a business process using a process diagram. The diagram shows the sequence of process steps that create a product or service within the business, and the flow of information between them. Some products and services might be for customers outside the organization. Other processes provide internal benefit and help manage the business.
Process Modeler enables you to create process diagrams to model business processes. The data from a process diagram is stored in the Oracle Designer repository and is available for use by other Oracle Designer tools. In particular, process steps are stored in the repository as functions, which you can access using the Function Hierarchy Diagrammer.
A process diagram has already been created to model customer order processing at a pizza delivery company. During this lesson you will:
Note: Before you start this lesson, make sure you have followed the instructions in Chapter 2, "Preparing for the Tutorial".
A process step represents an individual task within a business process. Each business process undertaken by an organization can be broken down into individual process steps.
When you save a process step in the repository, it is saved as a business function.
To add new process steps to the existing diagram modeling the Satisfy Customer Order process. These process steps are to be represented on the diagram by two of the icons shipped with Process Modeler.
The workarea selection box may appear. If it does, highlight TUTORIAL and click the OK button.
You may have to resize the diagram to see all of the icons.
The Create Process Step dialog box is displayed.
Short Definition: Add new product to the menu
Label: DELI 10.4 (AUTO)
The new process step is represented on the diagram by an icon, as shown below.
You can now change the icon that represents the new process step.
Short Definition: Publish menu on the Web
Label: DELI 10.5 (AUTO)
A flow represents the movement of information between individual elements (e.g. process steps) on a process diagram. A trigger is an event that initiates the business process that a process diagram illustrates. An outcome is an event that results from the business process that a process diagram illustrates.
To add a flow to the process diagram, between the ADD NEW PRODUCT TO THE MENU process step and the PUBLISH MENU ON THE WEB process step, and to add a trigger and outcome.
The Create Flow dialog box appears.
The Create Trigger dialog box appears.
The Create Outcome dialog box appears.
The diagram now appears as shown.
In this lesson you used the Process Modeler to enter new steps called ADD NEW PRODUCT TO THE MENU and PUBLISH MENU ON THE WEB in the Satisfy Customer Order process. You indicated an information flow and recorded a trigger and outcome.
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