Activiti for Business Process Designers

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.

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

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