Tablet Accessory User Manual

Monitoring and Managing Process Execution
Chapter 6 Managing Process Execution 179
➤ To broadcast a message to all sessions
1. Choose Monitor > Sessions to open the list of current sessions.
2. Right-click and choose Session > Broadcast from the popup menu. The
Broadcast Message window displays.
3. Type the message in the Message field.
4. Select the urgency: Informational or Critical.
5. Click Send.
Monitoring and Managing Process Execution
As described in “Process Execution” on page 165, an iIS process engine executes
process instances by creating a succession of activities, moving them through a
number of states, checking timers, and locking, modifying, and unlocking process
attributes.
The engine maintains information about all registered process definitions and the
process instances corresponding to each. For each process instance, it maintains
information about activities, timers, and process attributes (and locks placed on
each process attribute). The information provided about these objects and their
relationship to one another are illustrated in Figure 6-2: