Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Core Development and Extension Cookbook

Building a workflow

We are going to start off by creating a simple workflow and then we will save it to the database. We need to do this before we create the business event subscription as we must select the workflow when we configure the business event subscription later in the chapter. To begin with, the workflow will have just a start and end function which all workflows must have. We will create some attributes which we will use later in the chapter to store the values passed in an XML payload.

To achieve this, we will need to complete a number of mini recipes as follows:

• Creating a new workflow
• Creating a new item type
• Creating a new process
• Creating a start function
• Creating an end function
• Creating attributes to store the event details
• Assigning ...