Chapter 5. Creating the Place order subprocess

Create the Place order subprocess, which is a separate business process that is carried out by the supplier. This is a reusable process that occurs during the course of case execution as described in Chapter 6, Designing the case definition.

Prerequisites

You have created a new case in Business Central. For more information, see Chapter 3, Creating a new IT Orders case project.
You have created the data objects. For more information, see Chapter 4, Data objects.

Procedure

In Business Central, go to Menu Design Projects IT_Orders_New.
From the project menu, click Add Asset Business Process.
In the Create new Business Process wizard, enter the following values:
- Business Process: place-order
- Package: Select com.myspace.it_orders_new
Click Ok. The diagram editor opens.
Click an empty space in the canvas, and in the upper-right corner, click the Diagram properties icon.
Scroll down and expand Process Data and click in the Process Variables section and enter the following values:
- Name: CaseId
- Data Type: String
  1. Click to add a another variable:
- Name: Requestor
- Data Type: String
Click the start event and create an outgoing connection from the start event to a task and convert the new task to a user task.

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Click the user task and in the Diagram Properties panel, input Place order in the Name field.
Expand Implementation/Execution and select supplier from the Groups menu.
Click in the Assignments field and add the following new conditions in the Place order Data I/O window.

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Click Save.
Select the Skippable check box and enter the following in the Description field:
Approved oroder #{CaseId} to be placed
Create an outgoing connection from the Place order user task and connect it to an end event.

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In the diagram editor, click Save, and then Save, to confirm your changes.