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Parent and Child Processes in a Workflow

Business workflows generate child tasks. For example, a self-service request generates individual approval tasks for each new link requested. CA Identity Governance initiates a Workpoint job for each approval task. These jobs are considered child processes within the workflow context that CA Identity Governance maintains.

Important! CA Identity Governance does not use native Workpoint parent-child capabilities to invoke child processes or transfer control between parent and child processes.

CA Identity Governance implements high-level workflow processes and low-level child processes as independent jobs in Workpoint. Parent and child jobs do not communicate directly with each other. Instead, they communicate with CA Identity Governance, which maintains the workflow context and controls all related Workpoint jobs.