Journeys – HCM with Oracle Process Automation
Before You Begin
This document illustrates how to configure the native process automation task type in the Journeys feature in Oracle HCM Cloud.
Background
This document outlines the steps to integrate HCM Cloud Journeys with the Oracle Process Automation (OPA) product. This offering is known as HCM Journey Booster.
Journeys Booster helps integrate HR processes and other business functions such as finance, operations, and facilities management with third-party systems and external applications. This enables end-to-end process completion in a single experience, supported by the process automation capabilities of OPA, with minimal coding needed. Journeys Booster automates requests and services across HR, IT, and other work systems and can also be expanded via HR Helpdesk when additional support is needed within workflows.
Journeys Booster is provisioned via a separate SKU.
Steps to build a Journeys Booster process
Within OPA there are two working environments: the design-time environment, where you develop and test applications, and the runtime environment, where you use and monitor process applications.
The design-time environment:
- Provides business-friendly graphical tools for designing processes, forms, data, decision models, and metrics from scratch
- Includes QuickStart Apps for fast and easy rollout of custom business applications
- Provides test environments for refining processes before activating them for use in production
The runtime environment:
- Makes it easy for you to view, complete, reassign, and delegate tasks
- Lets you stay organized with filters
- Lets you share documents and collaborate with others on your team
- Provides tools to track process flows, view detailed audit trails, troubleshoot, and fix processes
The design-time environment is also called Designer, and the runtime environment is also called Workspace. The terms design time and Designer, and runtime and Workspace are used interchangeably throughout this tutorial.
General documentation relating to Oracle Process Automation should be referenced for a detailed understanding of the product. This document only covers specific design considerations and activities required to configure a sample Process in OPA with a HCM environment. The high level required steps are:
- Create a OPA Application
- Activate OPA Application
- Create a new HCM Journey
- Assign HCM Journey to employee
Sample Process
The sample process used as an example in this guide relates to the selection of a uniform by an employee and the subsequent approval step by procurement manager prior to an email confirmation sent to the uniform distributor.
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