To set up Business Flow
Open Business Flow and select
Business Flow to get to the configuration page.
Select the icon and rename the Configuration
. In the same place, you can also describe the business flow. For example, you can create a payment process flow called ACME Payment Process
.
In the rightmost side panel, under Step 1, select Add event dropdown under Events, and choose a business event to specify a step completion.
Note: You can add up to 5 events for each step.
Name the step by selecting Step 1 name in the side panel.
In the main panel tree, hover over Step 1 box, and select at the bottom of the step box to add the next step.
Note: You can also add previous steps and generate a branch.
Note: that steps cannot be reordered.
Continue adding further steps until your business flow is complete.
In the rightmost side panel, set the default correlation ID in the global settings.
Note: The default correlation ID entered here is applied to all steps. Optional local correlation IDs override the default setting and can be defined for each relevant step.
The Correlation ID field is pre-filled with the default correlation ID. If an event associated with this step uses a different correlation ID, enter the new name in the Correlation ID field located in the detail view of the selected step (the rightmost side panel).
Some events can indicate a business exception; for example, an out-of-stock event. Select the events that are designated as Business exception in a step.
In the rightmost panel, find the global settings .
Select Mapping event dropdown field and choose the business event that contains the attribute to use to calculate the KPI.
Select Mapping attribute from event dropdown field and choose the KPI. Only attributes that are of type long
or double
are shown.
Close the Advance settings configuration window.
Select Validate & Save configuration.
Step name
Correlation ID
Business KPI
Place order
order_id
Order confirmed
order_id
order_amount
Order shipped
order_id
Order delivered
order_number