by PDS Marketing | May 15, 2020 | Blog, Workflow
The first step in creating workflow templates for your various HCM activities is to model those processes. The Vista Workflow engine supports just about any variations in business flows, so you can model just about whatever you want. One trap people fall into is...
by PDS Marketing | May 8, 2020 | Blog, Workflow
By default, the information submitted on a Vista workflow screen is both visible and editable (with the standard workflow audit trail) by subsequent workflow participants (e.g., approvers). That might be appropriate in some situations, but not all. For example, you...
by PDS Marketing | May 1, 2020 | Blog, Workflow
In the last article, we discussed running the Issue Detective so that it can alert you to workflow templates that might cause approvals to land on in the queue of someone who is no longer there. However, somebody might be terminated (or transferred) while existing...
by PDS Marketing | Apr 24, 2020 | Blog, Issue Detective, Workflow
We could repeat this best practice for virtually every part of Vista. The Issue Detective exists, not because bad data originally got into the system, but because time and events can make data bad or suspect. Running the Issue Detective on a regular basis ensures that...
by PDS Marketing | Apr 20, 2020 | Blog, Workflow
You’re successfully using manager and employee self-service with Vista Workflow for key business processes, such as performance reviews and requesting time off. Everything is running smoothly until you encounter these two scenarios: Managers (approvers) are not always...
by PDS Marketing | Mar 19, 2020 | Blog, Workflow
The most basic workflow model works something like this: A request is submitted for approval. If it is rejected, an email is sent. Otherwise, the request is executed. Here’s what that looks like when illustrated as a flowchart: While this works well in most cases,...
