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Submit a Start Request from CA Process Automation

If you have the required permissions, you can submit a start request from the Start Request pane in the Operations tab. In CA EEM, you are granted Start permission on the start request form object through a custom policy on the start request form.

If you check out and modify one or more automation objects used in the process invoked with the start request form, your private checked-out copy is loaded and executed. That is, you can execute and test your own checked out version of objects in a process without first checking them in or making them current.

Follow these steps:

1. Log in to the CA Process Automation web interface.
2. Open the Start Request pane in the Operations tab.
3. Navigate to the target start request form, right-click the form, and select Start.
4. Set the parameters on the first page and click Finish, if this button is displayed. Otherwise, click Next.
   • If you clicked Finish, the process is queued to run immediately. Continue with Step 7.
   • If you clicked Next, the next page of the start request wizard appears.
5. If the page does not include the Queue request immediately setting, set the parameters, and click Finish, if the button is displayed. Otherwise, click Next.
   • If you clicked Finish, the process is queued to run immediately. Continue with Step 7.
   • If you clicked Next, the next page of the start request form wizard appears. Repeat this step, if applicable. Otherwise, continue.
6. If the page displays the Queue request immediately setting, take one of the following actions:
   • Accept the default settings and click Finish.

     The request is queued to run immediately.

   • Clear the Queue request immediately check box, set a future date and time, and click Finish.

     The process stays in queued state until the specified date and time. At the scheduled time, the request starts running unless it is dequeued.

7. (Optional) When processing begins, monitor the Process instance in Process Watch.