Defining an Interactive task

An Interactive task adds human interaction in the BPMN process. This recipe will delve into defining an Interactive task.

Getting ready

User tasks are tasks that need user interactions. Check the model that you have created. Rectangle green boxes represent the User tasks. They are also called Interactive tasks.

How to do it...

To implement a User task, you need to define a service component called Human Task, associate it with the activity, and then map data into and out of the activity. As we mentioned earlier, you must have already defined the Business and Data objects. As a developer, you will perform the following activities for implementing a User/Interactive task:

• Defining a Human Task

• Binding it to an activity

• Mapping data input and output to the activity

There are two approaches to working with Human Tasks in Oracle BPM:

• Creating the Human Task using the SOA Human Task editor

• Creating the Human Task using the simplified interface that Oracle BPM provides

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