Cisco Cisco Process Orchestrator 3.0 User Guide
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Cisco Process Orchestrator User Guide
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Chapter 7 Authoring Processes
Adding an Invocation of an Existing Child Process
Adding an Invocation of an Existing Child Process
Before an existing process is available in the Processes pane of the Process Editor and can be used in
another process' workflow, the Started by Parent Process trigger must be defined in that existing process.
another process' workflow, the Started by Parent Process trigger must be defined in that existing process.
Figure 7-5
Started by Parent Process Trigger Example
Before You Begin
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Confirm that the process you want to invoke includes the trigger, Started by Parent Process.
To invoke an existing process as a child of the primary process:
Step 1
Choose Toolbox > Processes, then highlight and drag the appropriate process to the Workflow pane.
Step 2
On the [Child Process Name] Properties property sheet, click the General tab and modify the general
property information.
property information.
Note
For information about the field parameters, see the online help.
Step 3
Click the Target and Credentials tabs and modify those properties as needed.
Step 4
Click the Inputs tab in the [Variable Name] field and modify the parameters for executing the child
process. If the process does not have any input variables, the page will be blank.
process. If the process does not have any input variables, the page will be blank.
Step 5
Click the Save
tool to save the child process definition.
Authoring Task Activities
Task activities allow the creation, manipulation, and deletion of tasks within process workflows. They
allow processes to interact with task records.
allow processes to interact with task records.
There are two primary types of tasks:
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IT process records tasks include the alerts, incidents, and change requests. For more information,
see
see