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About the Start Request Form

The content designer uses start request form objects to define prompts for parameter values to initialize dataset variables in a process. The production user who starts the process uses the start request form to set the values for the current execution of the process. The content designer controls the setting whether the user who starts the request, and has the options to queue it. Because most start requests are initiated with the intent to run them right away, most start request forms are designed to start running immediately.

The production users or content administrators can start a start request form from the following locations:

• Click the Operations and the Start Request pane in the CA Process Automation web interface. Navigate to the folder containing a start request form, right-click the start request form, and select Start.
• Open the Library Browser in the CA Process Automation web interface. Navigate to the folder containing a start request form, right-click the start request form, and select Start to open the Start Request wizard.
• Open the Process Watch palette for a process watch to which you added a start request form.

You can right-click any start request form object, and click Properties to view the following information:

Name

Reference

The path to the start request form object in the library.

Process name

The process that a request starts.

Touchpoint

The Touchpoint on which the form is located.

A start request form object specifies the following elements:

• A process object.
• Prompts for values that are required to start the process.
• Automation object permissions.

  If CA EEM manages CA Process Automation security, create a custom policy with the start request form resource class to grant the ability to start the start request form. In the custom policy, add identities to grant access, select StartRequestForm (Start) as the action, and add /Job Start Forms/* as the resource. Create a custom policy for objects to grant access to the folder with forms, including the Start Request Form. In the custom objects policy, add identities to grant access, select Object_List (List) and Object_Read (Read) as the actions, and add / as the resource.

Users with access to a process watch can monitor all requests in all states. Users can create a process watch to monitor specific requests.