Activiti for Business Process Designers Training Course

Overview

Activiti is an open-source workflow engine and Business Process Management (BPM) Platform for business people, developers and system admins.

Requirements

Though software developer background is not required, familiarity with any programming language (VBA, C, Java, PHP etc…) is a must for delegates. If you are looking for a course for developers please check the course, Activiti for Process Developers.

Course Outline

BPMN 2.0 Introduction

• What is BPMN?
• Defining a process

BPMN 2.0 Constructs

• Events
  • Event Definitions
  • Timer Event Definitions
  • Error Event Definitions
  • Signal Event Definitions
  • Message Event Definitions
  • Boundary Events
  • Compensation Boundary Event
  • Intermediate Catching Events
  • Compensation Event
• Sequence Flow
  • Description
  • Graphical notation
  • XML representation
  • Conditional sequence flow
  • Default sequence flow
• Gateways
  • Exclusive Gateway
  • Parallel Gateway
  • Inclusive Gateway
  • Event-based Gateway
• Tasks
  • User Task
  • Script Task
  • Business Rule Task
  • Manual Task
  • Multi-instance (for each)
  • Compensation Handlers
• Sub-Processes and Call Activities
  • Sub-Process
  • Event Sub-Process
  • Transaction subprocess
  • Call activity (subprocess)
• Data objects

Activiti Introduction

• Very short introduction to BPMS
• Licence
• Downloading and Installing

Activiti Modeler

• Table-driven definition (Activiti Kickstart)
• Model editing
• Importing existing models
• Convert deployed definitions to an editable model
• Export model to BPMN XML
• Deploy model to the Activiti Engine

Activiti Explorer

• Process diagram
• Tasks
• Start process instances
• My instances
• Administration
• Reporting

The Activiti API

• The Process Engine API and services
• Exception strategy
• Working with the Activiti services
  • Deploying the process
  • Starting a process instance
  • Completing tasks
  • Suspending and activating a process
  • Query API
• Expressions
• Unit testing
• Debugging unit tests

Eclipse Designer

• Installation
• Activiti Designer editor features
• Activiti Designer BPMN features
• Activiti Designer deployment features
• Extending Activiti Designer

Deployment

• Business archives
  • Deploying programmatically
  • Deploying with Activiti Explorer
• Versioning of process definitions
• Providing a process diagram
• Generating a process diagram
• Category

Forms

• Form properties
• External form rendering

History

• Querying history
• History configuration
• History for audit purposes

REST API

• General Activiti REST principles
• Deployment
• Process Definitions
• Models
• Process Instances