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Introduction to Teamcenter Workflows

Workflows is the automation of business processes in which documents, information and tasks are passed between the authorized users of the organization in a way that is controlled by rules and conditions. It comes from the old school concept, that all work goes through one or more process/approvals to accomplish an objective. It replaces the paper approvals through digitally capturing the all the information happened on the workflow lifecycle. Who has initiated, Who has approved or completed the task, When the task is completed, What are the comments, etc. Workflows are designed by system administrator using Workflow Designer application of Teamcenter. Workflows are designed based on the company's business process with defined practices and procedures. End users use the templates to initiate workflow processes in My Teamcenter application on the objects. Workflow Elements Workflow Template: Templates are blueprints of workflow processes. Administrators creates the workflow proces...

Automatic Condition Task in Teamcenter Workflow

Teamcenter Condition task can be configured to complete either automatically or manually. Based on the use case, determine which is best suited for the workflow process. If a handler can determine the criteria, it is best to configure the task as automatic. Automatic Condition task Create a query against the target. Create a query against the task. Create a query against subprocesses. Action handler to set the task result to true. false or a customized value. Samples for automatic condition task 1. Using Query against target Use case: Branch based on target object type. If PDF is not found in target, route to false path Step 1: Create a new query in query builder. For this use case, the search class is workspaceobject and criteria is object_type=PDF Step 2: Add a condition task in the workflow.  Select Condition task and click Task attributes. In Attributes Panel, select Condition Query and choose the query created in Condition query dialog. Select Query against as Target Scop...