Class COOWF@1.1:ProcessDefinition

This object class is used to define process templates for a workflow process. A process definition is a predefined process which can be used to initialize a process instance (a workflow, that is executed). It consists of a sequence of activity definitions, CASE switches, IF-THEN-ELSE conditons, REPEAT loops and/or other process definitions (subprocesses), which are connected with each other.
Process definitions are used to add a process to an object. Thereby a process instance is created from the process definition and instance elements are created from the definition elements. Embedded subprocesses are resolved either when the process instance is created or when the subprocess is actually initiated. Resolving the subprocess means inserting activity instances into the current process instance. If the process definition is modified after the process instance was created, the modifications are not reflected in the running process instances (with the exception of loops and subprocesses that are not expanded immediately).
Note: When an object is initialized with a process definition the created process instance is stored as a property of the object. Therefore the object class of that object or a base class of the object class must include the property workflow. By default no object class has this property assigned. You have to add this property to your object classes and to the existing object classes depending on the object model of your solution.

Class Hierarchy

Object > ComponentObject > ConfigurationObject > ProcessDefinition

Properties

Type	Property	Name
Content	content	File
LanguageStringList[]	mlname	Multilingual Name
boolean	procdefcommon	Commonly Usable
boolean	procdefcopyinst	Copy Process With Object of Process
EscalationDefinition	procdefescalation	Escalation
boolean	procdefexpand	Expand Immediately
integer(3)	procdefloadsharingvalue	Value for Load Sharing
boolean	procdefnocomplete	Processes Are Not Completed Automatically
boolean	procdefnostart	Processes Are Not Started Automatically
NotificationEntryList[]	procdefnotification	Defined Notifications
WorkFlowPriority	procdefpriority	Workflow Priority
PushNotificationEntryList[]	procdefpushnotification	Defined Push Notifications
DefinitionElement[]	procdefstart	Start Activities
ProcessDefinitionState	procdefstate	State of Process Definition

Actions

Return Type	Signature
object[]	GetDefinitionElements( out retval object[] defelems, optional object objclass)
WorkFlowCompoundParticipant[]	GetDiagramProcessParticipants( optional boolean skipsubprocesses, out retval WorkFlowCompoundParticipant[] processparticipants, optional boolean forcereferenceddraftversion)
object	InitializeProcessInstance( out object coost, ref retval object procinst, object refobject, optional string procinstcommonid)
object	ObjectCopy( ref optional object placement, out retval object object, optional string address, optional boolean virtualobject)
integer	ObjectFixVersion( boolean autofixed, string versdesc, out retval integer newversnr, optional boolean fixcontents, optional boolean converttofinalform, optional string finalformat, optional boolean noautopurge, optional datetime verschangedat, optional datetime verssavedat, optional User versby)

Properties

File (COOSYSTEM@1.1:content)

Defines the multimedia content of the object and information like the size of the content or the date of the last change.

Explanation:
Defines the content.

Content COOSYSTEM@1.1:content

Additional Information

Access Types for Changing Property: AccTypeChangeContent
Access Types for Reading Property: AccTypeReadContent

Multilingual Name (COOSYSTEM@1.1:mlname)

Defines the multilingual name of the object. It stores one name for each supported language.

Explanation:
This field defines the multilingual name of the object.

unique LanguageStringList[] COOSYSTEM@1.1:mlname

Commonly Usable (COOWF@1.1:procdefcommon)

This property defines if a process definition is commonly used. A commonly used process definition can be selected by the user when initializing a process if workflow preferences are defined.

boolean COOWF@1.1:procdefcommon readonly

Copy Process With Object of Process (COOWF@1.1:procdefcopyinst)

This property can be used to define, if process instances, that are generated from this process definition, should be automatically copied, if an object is copied, that has such a process instance attached.
This property is used to initialize the property procinstcopyinst of a process instance.

boolean COOWF@1.1:procdefcopyinst readonly

Escalation (COOWF@1.1:procdefescalation)

Defines the escalation definition that is to be used for activity instances in process instances generated from this definition.
This property is used to initialize the property procinstescalation of a process instance.

EscalationDefinition COOWF@1.1:procdefescalation readonly

Additional Information

Object Classes Allowed: EscalationDefinition

Expand Immediately (COOWF@1.1:procdefexpand)

Defines whether the process definition should be expanded immediately or not. If the value is True, the process definition is expanded immediately.
If a process instance is created from a process definition with this property set to True, all sub processes within this process definition are expanded immediately, even if the sub process has this property set to False.
The advantage of setting this property to False is that activity instances are not created, if a path of an IF-element or CASE-element is not executed. A disadvantage could be that the sub process is expanded after the creation of the process instance. This means that modifications of the sub process definitions between the creation and the expansion do influence the process.

boolean COOWF@1.1:procdefexpand readonly

Value for Load Sharing (COOWF@1.1:procdefloadsharingvalue)

This property defines the load sharing value for the process definition.

unsigned integer(3) COOWF@1.1:procdefloadsharingvalue readonly

Processes Are Not Completed Automatically (COOWF@1.1:procdefnocomplete)

If set to true the process instances of this process definition are not completed automatically

boolean COOWF@1.1:procdefnocomplete readonly

Processes Are Not Started Automatically (COOWF@1.1:procdefnostart)

If set to true the process instances of this process definition are not completedstarted automatically

boolean COOWF@1.1:procdefnostart readonly

Defined Notifications (COOWF@1.1:procdefnotification)

Configured notification settings for instances of the process definition. Each configured event type setting overrides the settings of notification definition stored at the current domain.

Explanation:
Defines in which case a notification is sent.

unique NotificationEntryList[] COOWF@1.1:procdefnotification readonly

Workflow Priority (COOWF@1.1:procdefpriority)

Defines the priority of the process definition. This property is used to initialize the property procinstpriority of a process instance.

WorkFlowPriority COOWF@1.1:procdefpriority not null readonly

Defined Push Notifications (COOWF@1.1:procdefpushnotification)

Configured push notification settings for instances of the process definition. Each configured event type setting overrides the settings of push notification definition stored at the current domain.

unique PushNotificationEntryList[] COOWF@1.1:procdefpushnotification readonly

Start Activities (COOWF@1.1:procdefstart)

Defines the list of start activities of the process definition.

unique DefinitionElement[] COOWF@1.1:procdefstart

State of Process Definition (COOWF@1.1:procdefstate)

Defines the state of the process definition. The process definition can be in definition, visible to other users (enabled), and not visible to other users (disabled).

ProcessDefinitionState COOWF@1.1:procdefstate not null readonly

Actions

COOWF@1.1:GetDefinitionElements

This action can be called to retrieve all definition element objects of a process definition that have the specified class. If no class is specified, all definition elements in the process definition are returned.

object[] COOWF@1.1:GetDefinitionElements(
out retval object[] defelems,
optional object objclass)

Name	Description
defelems	The list of definition elements.
objclass	The desired class.

COOWF@1.1:GetDiagramProcessParticipants

Get the participants used in the executable processes of the process diagram

WorkFlowCompoundParticipant[] COOWF@1.1:GetDiagramProcessParticipants(
  optional boolean skipsubprocesses,
  out retval WorkFlowCompoundParticipant[] processparticipants,
  optional boolean forcereferenceddraftversion)

Name	Description
skipsubprocesses	If set to true the subprocesses contained in the process diagram will not be scanned for participants
processparticipants	the result
forcereferenceddraftversion	if to true the draft version of all referenced diagrams is used. If set to false the released version of the referenced processes is used. If the parameter is not defined the current referenced object is used

COOWF@1.1:InitializeProcessInstance

This action is called when a process instance object is created from a process definition object. This happens, when a new process instance is created from a process definition.
If a software component has derived new classes for process definitions and process instances, it has to implement a method for this action on its new class for process definitions to create the appropriate class for the process instance. Otherwise just the default class for process instances would be used, if an instance is created from the definition.
This action does not create instance elements for the definition elements of the process definition. This has to be done separately.

object COOWF@1.1:InitializeProcessInstance(
  out object coost,
  ref retval object procinst,
  object refobject,
  optional string procinstcommonid)

Name	Description
coost	The COO Store, where the new object should be created.
procinst	If defined, when the action is called, no new object is created. Only the properties of the object are initialized with the templates from the process definition. If not defined, a new object with an appropriate class is created and returned in this parameter.
refobject	The object used in the computation of the affinity of the new process instance objects. This should be the object this process instance will be attached to, if any.
procinstcommonid	if defined the identification is stored in property `procinstcommonid` for newly created processes. This identification is used to allow to combine commonly started process instances

COOSYSTEM@1.1:ObjectCopy

Creates a new object as the copy of the object. This action called on the source object. This action sets the property objsource on the copied object.

object COOSYSTEM@1.1:ObjectCopy(
  ref optional object placement,
  out retval object object,
  optional string address,
  optional boolean virtualobject)

Name	Description
placement
object	The created copy of the object.
address	The object address for the new object. If this parameter is used, it overrides the specified COO store in parameter `coost` or the automatically chosen COO store, if no COO store was specified.
virtualobject

COOSYSTEM@1.1:ObjectFixVersion

Defines the current object version of the object with a short description of the version and starts a new version.

For the purpose of migrations, version metadata set by the kernel can be overridden. The implementation attemps to make migration metadata available in both, objversions as well as corresponding properties in associated versions. Kernel values are stored in corresponding backup properties.

The following properties can be overridden:

Version Property	Override Mechanism	Requirements
`verscreatedat`	`objcreatedat`	Object creation
	`objactverscreated`	Object creation
	`ObjectFixVersion` parameter verschangedat	Subsequent `ObjectFixVersion`
`versby`	`objchangedby`	`ObjectFixVersion` before commit
	`ObjectFixVersion` parameter versby
`verschangedat`	`ObjectFixVersion` parameter verschangedat
`verschangedby`	`objcreatedby`	Object creation
	`objchangedby`	`ObjectFixVersion` after commit
`verssavedat`	`ObjectFixVersion` parameter verschangedat

Limitations:

Despite date overrides, the current date and time (coonow / CooRuntime.GetCurrentDateTime) remains unaffected. Undesired values must be handled manually.
Despite user overrides, the current user (coouser / CooRuntime.GetCurrentUser) remains unaffected. Undesired values must be handled manually.

To maximize date and user correctness, disable functionality leading to undesired date and time / user values by means of FSCCOLD@1.1001 class and mapping options, configuration changes, and transaction variables.

integer COOSYSTEM@1.1:ObjectFixVersion(
  boolean autofixed,
  string versdesc,
  out retval integer newversnr,
  optional boolean fixcontents,
  optional boolean converttofinalform,
  optional string finalformat,
  optional boolean noautopurge,
  optional datetime verschangedat,
  optional datetime verssavedat,
  optional User versby)

Name	Description
autofixed	If it is `true`, the new version was started automatically. Otherwise the user started a new version.
versdesc	The version description.
newversnr	The new version number.
fixcontents
converttofinalform
finalformat
noautopurge
verschangedat	The value to override `verschangedat` with. The kernel value is stored in `versrealchangedat` and `objrealactverscreated`.
verssavedat	The value to override `verssavedat` with. The kernel value is stored in `versrealsavedat`. If `verschangedat` is specified and `verssavedat` is not, the value is based on `verschangedat`.
versby	The value to override `COOSYSTEM@1.1:verssby` with. The kernel value is stored in `versrealsavedby`. If not specified and `objchangedby` is set in the current transaction, the value is based on `verschangedat`. Otherwise, the value is based on the current user (`coouser` / `CooRuntime.GetCurrentUser`).