Process Initiation

When designing processes, decide how each process starts. You can design a process to start in several ways:

Manual Start: You can manually start a process in the Library Browser or the Process Designer. As a designer and content developer working in CA Process Automation, you routinely start processes manually while designing and testing them.
Automatic Start: You can construct a process that automatically starts another process using the Start Process operator.
Automatic Start by External Entity: You can set a process to start from an external application or system using Web services, a command line utility, or triggers. For example, you can specify that another program starts a process using Web Services (executeProcess or executeStartRequest). You can set a process to start by an external event through the use of supported triggers including file creation, incoming e-mail, SNMP traps, and events from UCF connectors.
Start by Schedule: You can schedule a process to start by using a Schedule object.
Start by User and Form: You can design a Start Request Form object or Interaction Request Form object that can prompt a user to respond to the form resulting in the initiation of another process. An example of this method for starting a process is an expense report submission form. An employee can fill out the form and start an UpdateExpenses process on demand.