About Participants

Participants are the entities assigned to carry out the tasks in a process.

BPM uses two types of participant:

• user task participants represent the users who perform the work defined in user tasks. These participants must be defined as external references in an organization model used by the process, not as basic types.
  Note: If you do not already have an organization model you can instead create participants as basic types and then refactor the process. This creates a simple organization model and converts the basic participants to external references in that organization model. See Creating or Obtaining an Organization Model for more information about this method.
• system participants are used to identify a task that is performed by the system.

When using participants as part of a process, you can:

• create a participant, see the TIBCO Business Studio Modeling User's Guide.
• define who will receive the work, by assigning one or more participants to a user task, see Assigning Participants to a User Task.
• define how to distribute work to users, see Defining How Work Will be Assigned to Users.
• delete a participant, see the TIBCO Business Studio Modeling User’s Guide.