Configuring Business Process Management

Before you can use all components of SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management (BPM) you need to perform some initial configuration steps:

• To enable business users to use all process desk tools, for example to show the corresponding process of a task from the universal worklist you need to add a link to the process visualization.

  More information: Configuring the Process Desk

• To enable users to use the universal worklist as a central point of access for their tasks you need to register the provider systems and map the portal users to the system users.

  More information: Configuring the Universal Worklist

• To enable users to work with the BPM administrative tools, you must have permissions to manage users in the User Management Engine (UME).

  More information: Configuring BPM Users

• To enable the notification messages service, you need to configure the mail server connectivity and enter some notification message details. To enable the display of the process in a graphical representation, you need to configure the process visualization URL. For the notification messages service and the process visualization configuration you can use a configuration template in the configuration wizard.

  Note

  Only use the configuration wizard directly after installation.

  More information: Wizard-based Configuration for Business Process Management , Configuring the Notification Messages Service , and Configuring the Process Visualization .