SAP WebFlow made configurable : unifying workflow templates into a configurable model

F. Gottschalk; W.M.P. Aalst, van der; M.H. Jansen-Vullers

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-75183-0_19

SAP WebFlow made configurable : unifying workflow templates into a configurable model

F. Gottschalk, W.M.P. Aalst, van der, M.H. Jansen-Vullers

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Abstract

To facilitate the implementation of workflows, enterprise and workflow system vendors typically provide workflow templates for their software. Each of these templates depicts a variant of how the software supports a certain business process, allowing the user to save the effort of creating models and links to system components from scratch by selecting and activating the appropriate template. A combination of the strengths from different templates is however only achievable by manually adapting the templates which is cumbersome. We therefore suggest in this paper to combine different workflow templates into a single configurable workflow template. Using the workflow modeling language of SAP’s WebFlow engine, we show how such a configurable workflow modeling language can be created by identifying the configurable elements in the original language. Requirements imposed on configurations inhibit invalid configurations. Based on a default configuration such configurable templates can be used as easy as the traditional templates. The suggested approach is also applicable to other workflow modeling languages.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007) 24-28 September 2007, Brisbane, Australia
Editors	G. Alonso, P. Dadam, M. Rosemann
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	Springer
Pages	262-279
ISBN (Print)	978-3-540-75182-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75183-0_19
Publication status	Published - 2007
Event	5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007) - Brisbane, Australia Duration: 24 Sept 2007 → 28 Sept 2007 Conference number: 5

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	4714
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743

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Conference	5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007)
Abbreviated title	BPM 2007
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Brisbane
Period	24/09/07 → 28/09/07

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Gottschalk, F., Aalst, van der, W. M. P., & Jansen-Vullers, M. H. (2007). SAP WebFlow made configurable : unifying workflow templates into a configurable model. In G. Alonso, P. Dadam, & M. Rosemann (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007) 24-28 September 2007, Brisbane, Australia (pp. 262-279). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 4714). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75183-0_19

Gottschalk, F. ; Aalst, van der, W.M.P. ; Jansen-Vullers, M.H. / SAP WebFlow made configurable : unifying workflow templates into a configurable model. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007) 24-28 September 2007, Brisbane, Australia. editor / G. Alonso ; P. Dadam ; M. Rosemann. Berlin : Springer, 2007. pp. 262-279 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Gottschalk, F, Aalst, van der, WMP & Jansen-Vullers, MH 2007, SAP WebFlow made configurable : unifying workflow templates into a configurable model. in G Alonso, P Dadam & M Rosemann (eds), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007) 24-28 September 2007, Brisbane, Australia. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4714, Springer, Berlin, pp. 262-279, 5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007), Brisbane, Australia, 24/09/07. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75183-0_19

SAP WebFlow made configurable : unifying workflow templates into a configurable model. / Gottschalk, F.; Aalst, van der, W.M.P.; Jansen-Vullers, M.H.
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007) 24-28 September 2007, Brisbane, Australia. ed. / G. Alonso; P. Dadam; M. Rosemann. Berlin: Springer, 2007. p. 262-279 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 4714).

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Gottschalk F, Aalst, van der WMP, Jansen-Vullers MH. SAP WebFlow made configurable : unifying workflow templates into a configurable model. In Alonso G, Dadam P, Rosemann M, editors, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007) 24-28 September 2007, Brisbane, Australia. Berlin: Springer. 2007. p. 262-279. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-75183-0_19

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