Concepts

The following chapters help you understand key concepts for the usage of Stardust. They include the definition of the according key concept along with links to chapters in the handbooks concerning the issue for further information.

• Workflow Basics
• • What is Workflow Management?
  • The Stardust Process Engine
  • Process Models
  • Processes
  • Activities
  • Control Flow
  • Applications
  • Workflow Data
  • Participants and Users
  • Scoped Participants
  • Triggers
  • Configuration Variables
  • Events
  • Representation of Model Elements
  • Runtime Behavior
• Administrative Concepts
• • Runtime Environment
  • Multiple Versions
  • Managing Multi Partition Stardust Installations
  • Daemons
  • Log Entries
  • Stardust Environment
  • Document Types
  • Preferences Storage
• Executing Workflow
• • Worklists
  • Delegating Worklist Items
  • Relocation of Activities
  • Spawning a Sub-process
  • Extracting Pages
  • Aborting and Starting Processes
  • Aborting and Joining Processes
  • Case - Grouping Processes
• Multi Model Audit Trail Setups
• • Using Multi Model Audit Trail Setups
  • Creating Models With Cross References
  • Common Usage Pattern
  • Using Elements from Other Process Models
  • Deploying Different Models into One Runtime
  • Multiple Implementations
• Audit Trail Persistence
• • Audit Trail Persistence Modes
  • Transient Processes
• Activity Criticality
• Quality Assurance