States

You define a process first in terms of states. States define the pipeline through which work flows. Each state contains a series of tasks and actions. States can relate to the following:

• The department involved with processing a portion of the process.

• The industry-defined portion of a process.

• The portion of a process that best practices defines.

State definitions appear graphically in the IPA Designer module in IC Server Manager.

A state can have local data variables, which are variables that only the state uses. States can have inputs to allow local variables to populate them from the calling state or task.

All processes must contain at least one state. The user who designs the process can select the starting state, and that state can call other states or tasks.