Selecting a Perspective

Perspectives can be selected in the Perspectives menu item in the menu of the navigation pane.

When logging into the Stardust Portal, it opens with the default perspective, the Workflow Execution Perspective. To switch to another perspective, click on the perspective entry on the upper left side.

Figure: Select a Perspective to work with.

Please note that the Administration Perspective is only available for selection if the logged-in user has administration rights.

Perspectives

The following perspectives are provided:

• Administration Perspective
• Business Control Center Perspective
• Business Process Modeling Perspective
• Business Process Reporting Perspective
• Rules Management Perspective
• Workflow Execution Perspective

Administration Perspective

The Administration Perspective provides a set of views displaying comprehensive or selective information on resources logging in and out of the system, processes being executed, activities being performed, user accounts of workflow participants and running daemons. Note that this perspective is only available for users having administrator rights.

For details on the available administrative functionality, refer to the Administration part.

Business Control Center Perspective

The Business Control Center Perspective provides a business management portal, which offers the possibility for:

• obtaining workload and performance of resources(see chapter Viewing Resources for details)
• adjusting priorities of activities and processes (see chapters Modifying Activity Priorities and Modifying Process Priorities respectively for details)
• retrieving information about hibernated or postponed activities (see specific chapters in section Monitoring Activities for details)
• optimizing workload according to business status (workload management)
  • assigning users to roles in which work load is extraordinary high
  • releasing users from roles where work can be handled with less people
  • changing standard priorities of processes
  For details on changing user and role assignments, refer to the according chapters in section Viewing and Managing Participant Assignments.
• retrieving information about cumulated business status
• retrieving information about dedicated process instances or activity instances, e.g.:
  • for a specific process/activity instance, if an employee has questions/concerns
  • for a specific customer
  • for a specific user or group of users
  For details you can refer to the according chapters in section Retrieving an Overview on Activity and Process Instances.
• delegating activity instances (see chapter Delegating Activities for details)
  • single activity instances due to priority or complexity
  • list of activity instances due to a non-present user
• searching for specific processes and activities by technical criteria and descriptors (see chapter Searching for Processes and Activities for details)

Business Process Modeling Perspective

The Business Process Modeling Perspective provides a Web-based modeling platform for analysts to create business process flow. For details on this perspective, refer to Business Process Modeling Handbook.

Business Process Reporting Perspective

In the Business Process Reporting perspective you can create and manage reports.

For details on working with this perspective, refer to Defining and Running Reports.

Rules Management Perspective

The Rules Management perspective provides functionality to create and manage rule sets.

For details on working with this perspective, refer to Managing Business Rules.

Workflow Execution Perspective

The Workflow Execution Perspective is a fully-functional application for executing interactive process activities. It allows you to:

• display activities assigned to the logged-in user via various worklists (for details refer to chapter Viewing Worklists)
• organize process documents (for details refer to chapter Organizing Process Documents
• search for specific documents (for details refer to chapter Searching for Documents
• perform single process activities modeled e.g. as JSF layouts or manual activities
• perform administrative activities, such as process monitoring

Section Using the Launch Panel in the Workflow Perspective of chapter Using Launch Panels provides an overview on available functionality in the Workflow Perspective launch panel.

Showing and Hiding the Navigation

You can show or hide the navigation pane. To show the menu, click Navigation on the left side of the window.

Figure: Open Navigation

The Navigation pane opens with the default perspective, the Workflow Execution Perspective.

Figure: Default Navigation

You can pin the navigation panel by clicking the Pin icon.

Figure: Pinning the Navigation