How Are Experts Different From Process Flows?
The Expert Editor is very similar to the Process Flow Editor. If you have created process flows, you will be able to adapt your knowledge very quickly to developing experts. However, there are important differences as well as important similarities. • Unit of Work: In a process flow, the unit of work is an activity. In an expert, the basic unit of work is a task. • Transitions: Both process flows and experts use transitions to connect the basic units of work. Transitions can be conditional. • Variables: Both process flows and experts enable you to define local variables to pass values from one task to another. • End tasks: Process flows have success, warning, and failure end activities, but experts have a single End task. • Subprocesses: You can design a process flow to open other process flows, and you can design an expert to open other experts. In this use, they are called nested experts. • Code: A process flow generates XML that conforms to the XPDL workflow standard. An expert gene
