Providing Access to the Status Monitor from Applications (Oracle Workflow Administrator's Guide)

Oracle Workflow Administrator's Guide
Release 2.6.3.5
Part Number B12160-02


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Providing Access to the Status Monitor from Applications

Application developers can provide access to the administrator and self-service versions of the Status Monitor from within an application. The Status Monitor supports the following access modes:

Standard access - Loosely coupled access from an Oracle Applications Framework-based Web page to a Status Monitor page within the full Oracle Workflow application

Guest access - Tightly coupled access from an Oracle Applications Framework-based Web page to a freestanding Status Monitor page for a particular workflow, without access to the rest of the Oracle Workflow application

Menu Setup

Before you can add Status Monitor access to your application, you must set up the menu for the appropriate responsibility to include Status Monitor functionality through Oracle Workflow menus.

For standard or guest access from an Oracle Applications Framework-based Web page or an Oracle E-Business Suite form, the menu for the responsibility through which users access that page or form must also include the menu for the Status Monitor version and access mode you want. Otherwise, users will encounter function security errors when navigating to the Status Monitor from your page or form. To avoid these errors, add the appropriate Oracle Workflow menu to the top-level menu for your responsibility.

The menus for the Status Monitor are:

Workflow Administrator Application (WF_ADMINISTRATOR_APPLICATION) - Required for standard access to the Administrator Monitor

Workflow Guest Monitor Application (WF_G_MONITOR_APPLICATION) - Required for guest access to the Administrator Monitor

Workflow Self-Service Application (WF_SELF_SERVICE_APPLICATION) - Required for standard access to the Self-Service Monitor

Workflow Guest Self-Service Monitor Application (WF_SSG_MONITOR_APPLICATION) - Required for guest access to the Self-Service Monitor

Access through URLs

You can provide standard or guest access to the Status Monitor from an Oracle Applications Framework-based Web page. You can also provide guest access to the administrator version of the Status Monitor from Oracle Workflow notifications or PL/SQL applications that can call a URL.

In your application code, call an API to obtain or redirect to a URL for an Oracle Workflow Status Monitor page. For standard and guest access, Oracle Workflow provides Java methods in the oracle.apps.fnd.wf.monitor.webui.Monitor class to obtain or redirect to appropriate URLs For guest access to the Administrator Monitor, Oracle Workflow also provides PL/SQL functions in the WF_MONITOR package to obtain appropriate URLs.

Note: For more information about the oracle.apps.fnd.wf.monitor.webui.Monitor class, refer to the Javadoc for the oracle.apps.fnd.wf.monitor.webui.Monitor class, available on OracleMetaLink. For more information about the WF_MONITOR package, see: Workflow Monitor APIs, Oracle Workflow API Reference.

Display the Status Monitor by redirecting to the Status Monitor page you want or using the URL you obtained in whatever way is appropriate within your application code.

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