The Quick Start Wizard lets you begin designing a workflow process immediately. It first loads a file called wftemplate.wft that is an outline of all the mandatory objects you need to build a workflow process and then displays a Process window for you to diagram your process. Once you initiate the Quick Start Wizard, you can take the bottom-up or top-down approach to complete your workflow process definition.

   To Use the Quick Start Wizard:

1. Select Quick Start Wizard from the File menu.

2. The Workflow Quick Start Wizard window prompts you for the following mandatory information:

   • New Item Type

     • Internal Name - Specify an all uppercase internal name with a maximum of eight characters. All Oracle Workflow APIs, SQL scripts, and PL/SQL procedures refer to the internal name when identifying an item type.

       Important: To update the internal name of an item type once it is defined, you must use a special SQL script called wfchitt.sql. See: Wfchitt.sql.

       Caution: Do not include colons ":" or leading/trailing spaces in your internal name.

     • Display Name - Enter a translatable Display Name for the item type.

     • Persistence Type - Specify Temporary or Permanent persistence for the status audit trail of the item type.

     • Days - If Persistence Type is Temporary, specify the number of days from the time an item type instance completes before its status audit trail can be purged. See: Persistence Type.

   • New Process

     • Internal Name - Specify an all uppercase internal name.

       Important: To update the internal name of an activity once it is defined, you must use a special SQL script called wfchact.sql. See: Wfchact.sql.

       Caution: Do not include colons ":" or leading/trailing spaces in your internal name.

     • Display Name - Enter a translatable Display Name for the process activity. The Display Name also appears in the title bar of your Process window.

3. The Quick Start Wizard does the following:

   • Creates a new data store called "Untitled-n" in the Navigator window.

   • Uses the information you entered in the Workflow Quick Start Wizard window to create a new item type and process activity in the data store.

   • Loads the Standard item type into the new data store so that you can include standard activities in the process you create.

   • Opens the Process window for the new process activity you defined. The Process window displays a Start and an End activity.

4. You can now customize your process definition in one of two ways:

   • Take a bottom-up design approach by first creating activities and all their supporting objects before trying to draw a workflow diagram. See: To Create a Process Definition From Bottom-Up.

   • Take a top-down design approach by creating activities that contain minimum information so you can draw the workflow diagram first. You can go back later to fill in the details of each activity and its supporting objects. See: To Create a Process Definition from Top-Down.