Use

In this lesson, you model the workflow so that the approval process can be run again after the workflow step Edit Relocation Form Again (Employee) . For this purpose, you set up a loop that directs the process back to the Approve Relocation Form step if the employee has completed the Edit Relocation Form Again (Employee) step .

Procedure

Open the Graphical Model area in the Workflow Builder

Choose the Step Types That Can Be Inserted menu bar.

Select the Loop (Until) entry. Hold down the left-hand mouse button to drag it into the Graphical Model area, onto the line before the Edit Relocation Form (Administrator) step.

The mouse pointer uses a plus symbol (+) to show you where you can insert the loop.

The detail view for the loop appears.

In the Step Name field, enter the following text: Revised by author?

Choose the Condition area.

The Change Condition dialog box appears. The condition that you are currently editing is displayed in the lower section of the dialog box. A red arrow identifies the condition that has just been edited is by.

Make a comparison with the value PROCSTATE in the Workflow Container.

Create the condition < PROCSTATE not equal to RESENT > as follows:

Double-click the value PROCSTATE in the Workflow Container.

The value PROCSTATE is copied to the condition line.

Choose RESENT from the Constant dropdown listand chooseEnter

The value RESENT is copied to the condition line.

In the Operators area, choose Not equal to .

The Change Condition dialog box should now resemble the figure below:

Choose Transfer Condition

The following expression now appears in the Condition area:&PROCSTATE& ≠ RESENT

Note that after running the Edit Relocation Form Again (Employee) workflow step, the result of the condition query for the loop is always RESENT. Even if the employee does not change the form, he or she can only choose Send . This produces a RESENT result, which causes the approval loop to run again.

The result of the condition query for the loop is only different to RESENT, if the Edit Relocation Form Again (Employee) workflow step is not previously run.

Label the branches in the workflow template. Under Outcomes , enter descriptions for the outcomes True and False .

The following descriptions are used in our example:

True (Loop End): Continue

False (New Loop Pass): Revised by author

Choose Transfer and Go to Graphic

Save and activate your workflow template.

Result

Your workflow template now looks like the following figure:

The first process step in which the employee starts the process is outside of the workflow and is therefore not represented in this graphic. The Edit Relocation Form (Superior) step (which the figure shows as the first step) is the second step of the process.