This tutorial completes the series of tutorials that relate to using forms for initiating processes with Intalio|BPMS 5.0. It explains how to execute the PIPA process as designed in the tutorial "Designing People Initiating Processes with Intalio|BPMS 5.0 ".

Deployment

This tutorial assumes that you have deployed the PIPA form and process as explained in the tutorial "Deploying People Initiating Processes with Intalio|BPMS 5.0".

Process Execution

In your web browser, go to the Intalio|BPMS Workflow Web User Interface at http://localhost:8080/ui-fw (default). This should take you to the login screen as in the screenshot below.

Login with Michael Smith's credentials, which are set by default in the Intalio|BPMS installation:

• user: 'examples\msmith' (without quotes)
• password: 'password' (without quotes)

By default, this user has the role 'examples\employee', which is a role we have authorized to start the PIPA process when we deployed the PIPA form.

This takes you to Michael's task list. Click the Processes tab to access the list of processes Michael is authorized to initiate. You should see a process called 'PIPA'. Click on it. This should display your PIPA form as in the screenshot below:

If you typed some text in your text input controls in the Form Editor, you should see the value already entered as the default value in the current form. You may now change the name and email as you like. Here we will use the following:

• Name: Michael Smith
• Email: This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Then click the Start process button. After a few seconds, the form should disappear and the task list refreshed.

Congratulations, you have successfully initiated your PIPA process! You don't believe it? Let's see...

Monitoring

We will now use the console to check that a PIPA process was indeed started and what information it carries. In your web browser, go to http://localhost:8080/bpms-console. This takes you to the login screen for the console. Login with the following credentials:

• username: 'admin' (without quotes)
• password: 'changeit' (without quotes)

In the Processes view, you should see that your PIPA process was deployed and one instance completed. Click on 'INSTANCES' at the top. This takes you to the list of all process instances running (or completed) in your server.

You should see that one instance of your PIPA process was recently started and completed. Click on it to see more details.

Click on the Data Tab. From this tab, you can monitor the values of your process variables. In particular, there should be a variable "initProcessRequestMsg". Click on it. This shows the actual content of the variable. In particular, you should be able to see the values that you provided in the form. This shows that Michael Smith initiated a process from Intalio|BPMS Workflow Web UI.

Conclusion

This tutorial completes the "PIPA Series". With these series of tutorial, we have described how you may create a form, integrate it with a process, deploy it and run it in order to initiate processes. All this without writing any code!

Intalio|BPMS Workflow is not limited to People Initiating Process Activities. It also support People Activities, which consists of tasks that a process may create a any point of its execution when human intervention is needed. There is another series of tutorials that explain how to create, integrate, deploy and execute people activities. You may now want to start with the tutorial "Creating forms to support people activities with the Form Editor".