Case Details View

The Case Details view displays case properties, descriptors, history, documents and processes linked to a case.

Case Overview

The Overview section displays the case properties:

Case Detail View
Figure: Case Detail View

Case Details View Toolbar

The following toolbar options are displayed.

Abort

If you try to abort the case process, the Abort Process dialog gets displayed.

Case Detail View
Figure: Case Abort

In the Abort Activity dialog, select any of the two options.

Case Detail View
Figure: Case Abort

Note that you cannot abort case process using this option. Cases can be aborted using the Abort Process and Join option.

Case Detail View
Figure: Case Abort

Abort Process and Start

You cannot abort and start a case.

Case Detail View
Figure: Case Abort and Start

If you try to abort and start the case, the following error gets displayed.

Case Detail View
Figure: Case Abort and Start - Error

Abort Process and Join

In case you want to abort an existing case process instance and join another case process, click the down-arrow icon displayed next to the Abort Process icon and select Abort Process and Join option from the toolbar. Refer to the Abort Process and Join section for more information.

Case Detail View
Figure: Case Abort and Join

Recover

To recover the case process, click the Recover Process icon.

Case Detail View
Figure: Recover

Attach a Process Instance to Case

The case owner can attach root process instances to the case using the Attach Process Instance to Case option. However, following rules are applied when you try to attach a process instance to a case:

To attach a process instance to a case:

  1. Click the Attach Process Instance to Case icon in the View toolbar
  2. Attach Process Instance to Case
    Figure: Attach Process Instance to Case

    The related process search is performed for all the active root process instances and the search result is displayed.

    Related Process Search
    Figure: Related Process Search for Active Process Instances

  3. Select one or more process instances to be attached to a case and click Attach
  4. Please refer to the chapter Related Process or Case Search for detail information.

    The attached process instance gets displayed in the Case History panel.

    Updated Case History
    Figure: Updated Case History

The attached root process instance becomes a child process of the case or a case subprocess.

Correspondence

Click the Correspondence icon.


Figure: Correspondence

A new Correspondence tab opens, where you can edit correspondence content. For more information, please refer to the chapter Creating Correspondence .

Chat

Click the Chat icon.


Figure: Chat

For more information, please refer to the chapter Chat View.

Update

Click the Update icon to update the Case Details view page.

Modifying a Case Name

The case owner can modify the case name. To modify the case name:

  1. Click the Update Case Name icon displayed next to the case name.
  2. Specify the new case name
  3. Click the icon. The new case name gets displayed.

Delegating a Case

Every case has an owner. The existing case owner and administrator can modify this field. Note that the case should not be in terminated state. For more information on case owner, please refer to the section Owner of a Case of chapter Case - Grouping Processes in the Stardust Concepts Owner of a Case of the Case - Grouping Processes chapter in the Concepts handbook. Using the Delegate Case Ownership option, you can modify the case owner.

Note that there are no restrictions to whom the case owner can delegate the case. The case owner can delegate the case to any participant regardless of current performer defined in any active model. Such as, delegation to any Stardust Portal user, role (can be implicitly scoped role), organization (can be scoped organization), and department. The Pick from List and Pick from Tree options include all participants regardless of current performer and all the departments in the hierarchy. Departments (both implicitly and explicitly scoped) are ordered alphabetically by the prepended parent organization name.

To modify the case owner:

  1. Click the Delegate Case Ownership icon displayed next to the case owner. The Delegate Case Ownership dialog is displayed.
  2. Delegate Case Ownership
    Figure: Delegate Case Ownership

  3. If you want to delegate the case to role or organization and its departments, then in the Delegate Case Ownership dialog box, click the link Pick from Tree. The Participant Tree gets displayed.
  4. Select the participant from the Participant Tree and click OK. The case gets delegated to the selected participant.
  5. Delegate Case Ownership
    Figure: Delegate Case Ownership - Participant

    Note that the users and user groups are not available for selection from the participant tree.

    OR

  6. If you want to delegate the case to the specific user, then click the link Pick from List. The available users and participants get displayed.
  7. Select the participant and click OK. The case gets delegated to the selected user.
  8. Delegate Case Ownership
    Figure: Delegate Case Ownership

    OR

  9. Specify the participant name in the Participant text box
  10. Select the type of the participant from the Type drop-down list
  11. Click OK.

Modifying Case Description

To modify the case description:

  1. Click the Update Case Description icon displayed next to the case description
  2. Specify the description and save it

Case Description
Figure: Case Description

Descriptors

The Descriptors panel displays the name and value of all key descriptors and descriptors from the subprocesses which have the same values. The list of descriptors is automatically updated whenever process instances are attached or detached and when cases are joined. Click the Update icon to recalculate the descriptors manually. For more information on descriptors and key descriptors, please refer to the chapter Working with Data Paths in the Stardust Documentation - Developer Handbook. Working with Data Paths chapter of the Developers Handbook.

Case Descriptors
Figure: Descriptors

Sorting Descriptors

The table can be sorted by the Name and Value column. Click the sort icon . The Descriptors table data is toggled between ascending and descending order when the sort icon is clicked.

Please refer to the section Sorting of the chapter Stardust Portal Components for detail information.

The Linked Cases panel displays linked case instance details. The case instance links are created when any case process instance is aborted and joined to another case process instance. It also displays Link Type, Link Create Time, Link Create User and Link Comment along with Actions column. To view the linked case details, click the linked case process name from the Process Name column or click the Process Details icon in the Actions column.

Linked Cases
Figure: Linked Cases

When the case process instance is aborted and joined the link type for:

The following sections provide details about actions and toolbar options for linked processes.

Actions

The actions for linked processes are same as for Case History. But note that the Abort Process icon is disabled in the following scenarios:

Column Selection and Reordering

You can select the columns to be displayed in table and reorder them.

Click the Select Columns icon to open the Select Columns dialog, which is described in detail in the section Column Selection and Reordering of the chapter Stardust Portal Components.

Exporting Table content

The data in the table may be exported to an Excel or CSV file. To export to a file, click to export to Excel or to export to a CSV file.

Please refer to the section Exporting Table Content of the chapter Stardust Portal Components for detailed information.

Aborting a Process

You can abort a case process using the Abort Process option. But note that you cannot abort case process using this option.

Abort Process

Abort Process and Start

You cannot abort and start a case.

Abort Process and Start

If you try to abort and start a case, the following message is displayed.

Abort Process and Start Error Message

Abort Process and Join

In case you want to abort an existing case process instance and join another case process, click the down-arrow icon displayed next to the Abort Process icon and select Abort Process and Join option from the toolbar. Refer to the Abort Process and Join section for more information.

Abort Process and Join

Recovering Process

Click the Recover Process icon to recover the case process.

Recover Process

Using the Case Menu option, you can create a case and attach to case. For more information, please refer to the chapter The Case Menu.

Case Menu

Saving Priority Changes

This icon enables when you modify the process priority. To save the modified process priority, click the Save Priority Changes icon.

Save Priority Changes

For more information, please refer to the section Modifying Process Priorities of the chapter Process Tables.

Case History - Process Table

The Case History panel displays the hierarchical tree view of processes that are added in a case. The case process is indicated with the icon. The root processes attached with the case are displayed under the case process instance.

Case History
Figure: Case History

The following columns are not displayed by default, but can be selected additionally:

For details on general process table functionality refer to chapter Process Tables.

By default, the current case process instance row is selected and the process table displays details about the subprocesses related to the case. To view details about other subprocesses, select the radio button of the according subprocess row in the Select column.

Select Process
Figure: Select Process

Case History- Process Table Toolbar

The following toolbar options are provided in the Case History Process table:

Detaching a Process Instance from Case

The case owner can detach root process instances from a case using the Detach Process Instance from a Case option.

To detach a process instance from a case:

  1. Select the root process instances from the Process Table of the Case History panel
  2. Click the Detach Process Instance from Case icon. The process instance gets detached from the case.

If the process instance to be detached is the last active process instance but at least one case member still exists, the state of the case process instance changes to complete. Following warning message is displayed.


Figure: Detach Process Instance - Warning

If no other case member exists, the state of the case process instance changes to aborted. Thus, an empty case is always in aborted state. Following warning message is displayed.


Figure: Detach Process Instance - Warning

Also, note that when detach process instance from a case is performed on non-case members, (spawned process from the case process instance) the error message is displayed.

Showing and Hiding Auxiliary Processes

You can suppress the display of process definitions that are not business relevant in the portal. These processes are marked as "Is Auxiliary Process" in the modeler. Please refer to chapter Working with Process Definitions of the Stardust Online Documentation - Modeling Guide Working with Process Definitions of the Modeling Guide for details.

By default, these auxiliary processes are displayed in the Process History. To show or hide them from the view, click the Show / Hide Auxiliary Processes icon in the toolbar.

Show / Hide Auxiliary Processes
Figure: Click to hide auxiliary processes

Expanding and Collapsing the Case Tree

Click the Expand All icon to view the subprocesses under a case. Similarly, you can close the expanded case tree using the Collapse All icon.

Actions

Most of the available actions are the same as for standard processes as described in detail in chapter Process Tables. The following actions are specific for case process instances:

Aborting Case Processes

Any existing case process instance cannot be aborted. In case of Abort operation, the following message is displayed.

Abort Case Process Instance
Figure: Abort Case Process Instance

Abort Process and Start

Any existing case process instance cannot be aborted and started. In case of Abort Process and Start operation, the following message is displayed.

Abort Process and Start
Figure: Abort and Start Case Process Instance

Abort Process and Join

In case you want to abort an existing case and join it to another case, click the down-arrow icon and select the Abort Process and Join option. When you abort and join an existing case:

The following rules are important when you try to abort and join a case process instance:

Please refer to chapter The Abort Process and Join Dialog for detail information.

Abort Process and Join
Figure: Abort Process and Join

Detach Process Instance from Case

The case owner can detach the subprocesses of the case process using this action. Click the Detach Process Instance from Case icon to detach the subprocess of the case process.

Activity Table for Case Process

The Activity Table for Case Process indicates when ownership of a case is delegated, as a case process instance is selected, by default. The default case activity is in suspended state after creation of the case. If you select a case subprocess from the Process Table of the Case History panel, activity status changes and any processes spawned by super processes are displayed under the activity nodes.

Activity Table for Case Process
Figure: Activity Table for Case Process

Please refer to the following sections for details:

Activity Instance States

The following activity state change events are displayed in the list:

Indicated Actions

Actions that have been performed on activities are displayed in the following way:

Icon Description
Activity is delegated.

Filters

In the Filters section of the toolbar, you can filter the rows. For example, different state of activities.

Filters
Figure: Provided Filters.

Show/Hide Interactive Activities

You can choose to show or hide interactive activities, like manual activities, by enabling or disabling the filter button for interactive activities.

Show/Hide interactive activities
Figure: Click to hide interactive activities.

Show/Hide Non-interactive Activities

You can choose to show or hide non-interactive activities, like application activities, by enabling or disabling the filter button for non-interactive activities.

Show/Hide noninteractive activities
Figure: Click to hide non-interactive activities.

Show/Hide Auxiliary Activities

You can choose to show or hide auxiliary activities (route activities) by enabling or disabling the filter button for auxiliary activities.

Show/Hide auxiliary activities
Figure: Click to hide auxiliary activities.

Auxiliary activities are all route activities and activities defined as Is Auxiliary Activity in the activities property page in the Stardust Process Workbench. Please refer to the chapter Specifying Activities of the Stardust Online Documentation - Modeling Guide section Display of the chapter Specifying Activities for detailed information on setting the Display option for defining activities as auxiliary.

If the auxiliary activity is a subprocess activity and the Show/Hide auxiliary activities button is disabled, all following activities in this subprocess are hidden as well.

Show/Hide Terminated Events

You can choose to show or hide terminated events by enabling or disabling the filter button for terminated event.

Show/Hide terminated events
Figure: Click to hide terminated events.

Show/Hide Delegation Events

You can choose to show or hide delegation events by enabling or disabling the filter button for delegation events.

Show/Hide delegation events
Figure: Click to hide delegation events.

Show/Hide Exceptions

You can choose to show or hide exceptions by enabling or disabling the filter button for exceptions.

Show/Hide exceptions
Figure: Click to hide exceptions.

Show/Hide Notes

You can choose to show or hide notes by enabling or disabling the filter button for notes.

Show/Hide notes
Figure: Click to hide notes.

Show/Hide state change events

You can choose to show or hide state change events by enabling or disabling the filter button for state change events.

Show/Hide state change events
Figure: Click to hide state change events.

Activity Tooltip

An activity tooltip indicates the type of activity like Application, Manual etc. Move your mouse-pointer over the according activity to invoke a tooltip with the activity type.

Tooltip
Figure: Indicate the Activity Type.

Actions

Options displayed in the Actions column are disabled for default case activity. Following operations are not allowed on a default case activity instance:

Activity state change is initiated internally only.

Please note that the case activities do not appear in assembly line mode.

For more information, please refer to the section Life-cycle of Case Activity Case - Grouping Processes in the Stardust Concepts Life-cycle of Case Activity of the Case - Grouping Processes chapter in the Concepts handbook.

Column Selection and Reordering

You have the option to select the columns to be displayed in the table and reorder them. Click the Select Columns icon to open the Select Columns dialog, which is described in detail in the section Column Selection and Reordering of the chapter Stardust Portal Components.

Exporting Table Content

The data in the table may be exported to an Excel or CSV file. To export to a file, click to export to Excel or to export to a CSV file.

Please refer to the section Exporting Table Content of the chapter Stardust Portal Components for detailed information.

Case Documents

The Case Documents panel provides a tree view of documents and notes for the case and all process instances in the case. The case process instance always appears at the top in expanded mode. It displays process attachments and notes. The process instance node is displayed under the case node in alphabetical order. You can view the process attachments, specific documents and notes, if added.

Case Documents
Figure: Case Documents

Note that if the TIFF document is associated with a case process instance and you open the TIFF document, the Extract Pages button of the TIFF viewer is disabled.

Participants

The Participants panel displays the case owner, case originator and the performers of an activity in any of the case process instances.

Case Participants
Figure: Case Participants