A Simple application from Scratch: Oracle Process Cloud

Are you a beginner in Oracle Process Cloud Service and want to learn how to play with this and create processes, forms, etc. So here is the article for you to learn step by step. This guide will only take 30 minutes to complete.

In this article, we will create a simple Leave Requisition process in Oracle Process Cloud Service(PCS) which can help to understand the basics of PCS.

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Let’s go ahead and create the process

Click on the Create an Application tile

Enter information as below and Click on the Create

Name: Enter name of the application of your choice(LeaveRequisitionApp)
Space: Select the existing Space or Click on New Space(if required)
New Space: Enter the space name as “HumanResource”
Description: Enter description optionally
Open Immediately: Check the checkbox

Select the Start with a form pattern

Once selected, a Create Process popup will come up which will allow you to enter the Process name(LeaveProcess) and the pattern will be selected automatically which we selected in the previous step. Click on the Create button

The process will be opened with the default start and end activity. In the LeaveProcess tab, double-click the gray vertical bar on the left, enter Employee in the role field, and press Enter

Below the Employee swimlane, click on Create New Lane to add a new lane

In new Swimlane double-click the gray vertical bar on the left, enter Manager in the role field, and press Enter and drop the End activity in Manager Swimlane

Expand Human in the Elements Palette, and drag and drop the Approve task to the Manager swimlane in the process flow diagram

Select the arrow between the start and end activity and drop on the User Task. Select the User Task, pick the Add Sequence Flow and drag the sequence flow onto the end activity. Once done, the process flow will look like below

Let’s add a web form to the business process with leave request details.

In the LeaveProcess tab, click Start, click Menu, and select Open Properties

Enter Title as “Leave Requisition Form”, click + button corresponding to the Form field.
On the opened popup, enter the form name as “LeaveForm“, select Open Immediately checkbox and click on the Create button

In the Web Form Designer, drag and drop the Email control from the Basic Palette to the form’s canvas

Select the control and see how the tabs in the Properties pane change to General and Styling. The General tab is selected by default. Click Name and enter “Email“, and then click the Label and enter “Email Address”

Drag and drop the following controls from the Elements Palette onto the canvas and configure them as follows:

Control Name	Name	Label
Date	From	From
Date	To	To
TextArea	Reason	Reason

Select the Save button and Close the form

Open the LeaveProcess tab, click User task, click Menu, and then click Open Properties

In the General tab, Click Browse to search from the Form field and select the form (LeaveForm)

Select Expression Editor corresponding the Title Field

In the Expression Mode enter below expression:

“Leave Request From “+LeaveForm.from

Enter the below expression in the Task Summary field:

“Hi, The Leave Travel Request has been raised between ” + LeaveForm.from + ” to ” + LeaveForm.to + ” for the reason ” + LeaveForm.reason

Click the Save button

The Process has been completed now. It’s time to test the process. Before we test the process, we have to publish the Process.

Click on the Publish button, enter below information and click on the Publish button

Select Make snapshot checkbox
Enter the snapshot name as Process Completed
Enter the comment

Click on the Test button, then click Activate. From the opened popup select the “Add Me to All Roles” checkbox and click on the Activate button

Once Activated, the Play button will be active now. Click on the Play button

From the Application Player tab, click on the “LeaveProcess” process

Notice the Play icon on Start activity. Click on the Play icon

Click on the Run button. This will open the form

Enter the information and click on the Submit button

The Application Player runs the business process. As it passes through each flow element and sequence flow, it outlines the path(in red) it takes through the process. It stops when the process instance reaches a flow element that requires input