Criteria for Defining Activities

Each process must contain at least one activity.

The following are guidelines for defining activities:

• You must associate at least one action with an activity.

• All activities can have more than one action associated with them. The primary action is the launch action; the additional actions appear in the action pane when the primary action is launched.

• Activities may require approval by a reviewer before the system considers the activity complete.

• Performers and reviewers must perform activities in the order defined in Activities.

• Each activity is assigned a driving dimension, which determines the generation (iteration) of the activity by process context. The driving dimension assigned to the activity is also associated with the performer and reviewer property for each activity context. The performer and reviewers can be modified when you create a process instance later.

• The process owner can finalize the process only when all activities are completed.

• Up to one thousand activities per process template or process can be defined.

• Up to one million activity contexts per process can be defined. The activity contexts can be calculated as a product of the number of activities and number of process contexts.