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About Process Control

Operators in the Process Control category can run only on Orchestrator touchpoints. Process Control operators have the following functions:

• Start and interpret CA Process Automation processes
• Invoke other categories to run operators in a process object instance
• Enforce dependencies
• Monitor category invocations and base how subsequent process branches run on the invocation results

When a process starts, the product makes a copy (instance) of the process. Changes to the copy do not affect other copies or the original process. You can start a process in any of the following ways:

• With the Form Designer.
• From a schedule.
• From another process.
• From an external application that uses a CA Process Automation trigger.
• From an external application that uses SOAP calls. See the Web Services API Reference.

If highly decentralized architectures, consider defining logical groups of operator categories in an environment and configure Process Control on a selected touchpoint in each group. In such a configuration, the product starts processes on the touchpoint that runs the Process Control operators for a group. You configure a touchpoint specifically to run multigroup processes. Running the processes in a decentralized architecture has the following benefits:

• It reduces the load on individual computers
• It reduces the impact of potential incidents
• It reduces the amount of data that is exchanged on remote hosts

More information:

Configure Process Control