Selecting Business Process Event Attributes

This topic describes the procedure to select the attributes for the selected Business Process Event Activities.

You have to select the process or activity attributes of the business process that are crucial for business and which you would like to monitor. You can perform real-time monitoring based on the occurrence of the selected business process and activity events in relation to the specified conditions built on the selected attributes and can take corrective action in case the events fall within the specified business condition.

1. Click the required Process or Activity events*under *Events section to select the required Process or Activity attributes. If you want to set the lead time of an activity, refer to Setting the Lead Time for an activity. The attributes, along with their alias names and Xpath, for the selected Process Event or Activity appear on the right pane. Standard attributes Process Name, Instance ID and Activity Name appear under Process and Activity start column respectively. Standard attribute - Lead-time also appears under the Process and Activity start. If you want to select the lead time attribute for an activity, refer to Setting the Lead Time for an activity.

   Note

   1. If you have selected the Activity Event, then the attributes that you have selected for message filtering appear along with the Standard attributes.
   2. Usage of Standard Attributes: Refer to Usage of Standard Attributes in creating a Business Event Response.
   3. By default, the alias name would be the same as the name of the Attribute. Change the name of the alias, Alias Name, if required.
2. Select the required attributes of the Process specific messages from the Process Variable Selection table.
3. Select the Include contextual information option to get the contextual data from a web service, if required.
4. Click Next to select a Web service to get the Contextual information, as the third step in the creation of a Business Event Response. For example, in the Order-to-Cash process, at Activity start of 'Register Order' you have an attribute called ProductID. You want to increase your monitoring context by including some more details about the Product. The attribute you want to add is 'ProductName' and 'UnitsInStock', which is not there as an attribute for that activity but present in existing database (different table) or in some external database then it can be called as an attribute using Include contextual information option.

   Note:

   • You may note that these attributes have no role to play in process execution and you can utilize them to increase the monitoring context.
   • This step is optional.
5. Select Model Email to define an email template containing attributes information of the process and can be triggered as an action. if specified business condition is met, on occurrence of an event like process or activity start and so on. This step is optional.
6. In case you do not opt for including contextual information or Model Email, click Next to view the Summary page. The Summary page appears displaying the Attribute Source (Process or Activity), Attribute's Alias Name and the Data type fields.
7. From the Summary page click Next to proceed with rule creation by defining conditions and respective action.

The business process event attributes are selected.