Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook

Organizing processes using swimlanes

Swimlanes are the horizontal lines running across the Process Editor and are used to:

• Group flow objects based on roles
• Make process readable.

Swimlanes are created for a process, hence you have to create and define processes first. Tasks inside the swimlane must have application roles associated with them.

How to do it...

In this section, you will create a BPM process, and will create a swimlane, and associate it with an application role.

Create Process

This is done as follows:

1. Go to the Project navigator and right-click processes (this will open the new gallery).
2. From Categories, choose BPM Tier.
3. Select Process to create a process.
4. Click OK.
5. The BPMN Process definition dialog opens up.
6. Enter process name and choose ...