Workflow Installation

By Lars Pind on 26 October 2000.

ACS Documentation : Workflow : Workflow Installation


Workflow is a standard APM package, so the basic installation is very straight-forward. However, if you want the graphical version of the Advanced Process Builder, you'll have to install GraphViz. Also, there are no processes in the default installation. If you want to install the sample processes, you'll have to do that manually.

GraphViz

Install GraphViz somewhere, and provide the full path and filename as a parameter to the package, e.g. /usr/local/bin/dot.

GraphViz is a tool that can generate a GIF image and an imagemap for an arbitrary graph. Moreover, you just need to pass it a textual representation of the nodes and arcs in the graph, and GraphViz figures out how to place those nodes and arcs so everything fits nicely on the page.

Load Sample Process Definitions

With the package are provided two sample process definitions. To load them, fire up a SQL*Plus session and load the files sample-expenses-create.sql and sample-article-create.sql from the packages/acs-workflow/sql/ directory.
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